Development of Space

Qs: 1 Which is the topic sentence? 2 The central focus is ____ The general arrangement of details is _____
3 Can you summarize the pattern of this paragraph? Exterior interior Top to bottom Left to right, to the rear, to the overhead
Sample 3 As I entered the bright ,cheerful space, with its beige walls and light grey carpet, I noticed a closet to my right with the door open. On the shelf above the bunched-together clothes were a red baseball cap, a fielder's glove, and a battered brown gym bag. Turning from the closet, I noticed a single bed with its wooden headboard against the wall. The bedspread was a brown orange, and beige print of basketball, football, and baseball scenes. A lamp shaped like a baseball and a copy of Sports Illustrated were on the top of a nightstand to the left of the bed. A sports schedule and several yellowing newspaper clippings were tacked to the cork bulletin board on the wall above the nightstand. A desk with a bookcase top stood against the left wall. I walked toward it to examine it more closely. As I ran my fingers over the items on the dusty shelvesa. B One theory is that cultivation of the grape originated in the area around the Caspian Sea. From there grape growing spread to neighboring areas of Asia Minor, then the Greece, and from Greece to Sicily. The Phoenicians took the grape into France, and the Romans planted grapes in Germany and England. At the same time as grape cultivation spread into the West, grapes were carried into the East by way of India. Wherever new lands were settled , people took the grape along. Columbus and later colonists brought the European grape to America, where it had little success until it was crossed with the native American Varieties.
tarnished medals and faded ribbons for track accomplishments. These lay next to a heavy gold trophy that read, "MVP: Pinewood Varsity Basketball." I accidentally tipped an autograph-covered, slightly deflated basketball off one shelf, and the ball bounced with dull thuds across the width of the room. Next to the desk was a window with brightly printed curtains that matched the bedspread. Between the window and the left corner stood a dresser with one drawer half open, revealing a tangle of odd sweat socks and a few stretched-out T-shirts emblazoned with team insignias. As I turned to leave the room, I carefully picked my way around scattered pairs of worn-out sneakers. Qs:1.What is described in the paragraph? 2.What does the writer describe first? what order does he follow? Why?
Sample 1 Para. A The history of the grape is as old as man, and even older. In fact, fossilized grape leaves, stems, and seeds have been taken from Tertiary deposits of perhaps 30,000,000 years ago. But in man's recorded history, we have details of grape and wine production depicted in mosaics of 2400 BC during the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt. In Homer's time, about 1000 BC, wine was a common feature of Greek life. By 600 BC, grapes were known in France, and no later than AD200 they were introduced into Germany. The writer Pliny, before AD 100, described ninety-one varieties of grapes and fifty kinds of wine. Columbus, and later colonists, brought European grapes to America, where they found native varieties already growing in a wild state.
Arrange descriptions according to space relationships Place/ Structure Notes:
Starting point Center of the scene Degree of Importance
Discuss upon the following questions: What's your overall impression of the university? Which building or location catches your attention first? Which place do you want to describe next? What do you want to describe last? What order does your description follow ? why do you choose this order? Write a paragraph describing the main features of your university.
Vertical order (bottom to top, top to bottom; head to toe, toe to head) Horizontal order( left to right, right to left) Depth order (inside to outside, outside to inside) Circular order (clockwise,counterclockwise; east to west, west to east) Center-to-circumference order (near to far) Which one you adopt depends on your topic and your focus
Can you summarize the pattern of this paragraph? An artistic grouping of details Use specific space signals right to left ,larger items to smaller ones
Qs: 1. Are the two paragraphs dealing with the same subject? If so, what is it? 2. How are the details in the two paragraphs arranged respectively? 3. list all the places mentioned in Para. B 4. Can you identify the order in which the places are introduced?