1、Text2 Ships in the desert,Description and Quotation,The application of description in expository writing,Straightforward style of writing (白描式）,Examples We were anchored in what used to be the most productive fishing site in all of central Asia, but as I looked out over the bow , the prospects of a
2、good catch looked bleak.(para1） (2) At the very bottom of the earth, high in the Trans-Antarctic Mountains, with the sun glaring at midnight through a hole in the sky, I stood in （para2）,fancy style（浓彩式）,Example: , and then I was standing in an eerily beautiful snowscape, windswept and sparkling whi
3、te, with the horizon defined by little hummocks, or “pressure ridges ” of ice that are pushed up like tiny mountain ranges when separate sheets collide. （para4),The application of quotation in expository writing Direct quotationa direct quotation is exactly the same as the original and must be put i
4、n quotation marks. Paraphrasing (释义；意译） Paraphrasing means to restate the idea of a sentence or passage in a different and usually simpler way.,Direct quotation,ExamplesAs early as 1946 one strategist concluded that strategic bombing with missiles “may well tear away the veil of illusion that has so
5、 long obscured the reality of the change in warfare from a fight to a process of destruction.” (para23),Paraphrasing,.ExampleFor example, it is now an axiom in many fields of science that more new and important discoveries have taken place in the last ten years than in the entire previous history of science .,The end,thank you!,
