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Show with Informative Details and/or Emotional Language “Telling” States Facts; “Showing” Invites Deeper Understanding Showing Prefers the Specific to the General Sometimes, “Telling” Is Good 1) Choose Specific Details That Show Your You won’t need to write a boring, uninformative and unpersuasive sentence like “Texting while driving is bad” if you can instead SHOW your point, through well-chosen details (such as statistics, specific examples, or personal stories) that Let’s consider this “This tired child needs a nap.” That’s pretty dry, so let’s try to make it more vivid and persuasive. The little girl looked so tired, she clearly needed a nap. This sentence gets right to the point, but nothing about it engages the imagination or makes the reader want to keep reading. The brown-eyed little girl wore a plastic Viking cap, and her mouth was sticky from candy. Standing there in her dress-up clothes, she looked
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