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Writing Descriptive Essays. What, exactly, is a Descriptive Essay?. A descriptive essay is simply an essay that describes something or someone by appealing to the reader’s senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Steps to writing an effective Descriptive Essay:.

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What, exactly, is a Descriptive Essay? A descriptive essay is simply an essay that describes something or someone by appealing to the reader’s senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste.

Steps to writing an effective Descriptive Essay: 1. Select a subject - Observation is the key to writing a good description. For example, if you are writing about a place, go there and take notes on the sights, sounds, and smells. A descriptive essay paints a picture for the reader, using descriptive devices and the senses.

Create a thesis statement – A thesis statement is simply a sentence that tells the reader what you are going to be talking about throughout the entire essay • You’re thesis statement should never begin with phrases like, “I am going to be talking about. . .”

Since this is a descriptive essay, create a thesis that informs the reader of who or what you will be describing. Ex: “My bedroom is an ocean sanctuary” Ex: “My family vacation to Disney World was a magical week of fun, laughter, and sun-filled happiness.

Select dominant details • Make sure you are only writing about things that specifically support your thesis. For example, if your thesis statement is talking about your sun-filled trip to the beach, don’t bore the reader with meaningless details about your swimsuit. . . You should be describing the beach itself, and perhaps some of the events that took place there (e.g. building a sandcastle, boogie-boarding, parasailing, etc.)

Use descriptive words – do not use vague words or generalities (such as good, nice, bad, or even beautiful). • Think about it. . . Which sounds better? “I ate a good dinner.” Or “I devoured a steaming hot, cheese-filled pepperoni pizza for dinner.” See the difference?

Provide sensory detail • Smells that are in the air (the aroma of freshly brewed coffee) • Sounds (traffic, honking horns, waves crashing) • Sights (“The sun scattered tiny diamonds across dew-covered grass as it peeked out from beyond the horizon.”) • Touch (“The texture of the adobe hut’s walls resembled coarse sandpaper.”) - Taste: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, tart (“Giant goose bumps formed on my tongue when I accidently bit into a sliver of lemon.”)

6. Draw a logical conclusion - The conclusion may also use descriptive words; however, make certain the conclusion is logical and relevant.

Now let’s practice! On a blank sheet of paper, look at the following images. Write down things you might hear, see, taste, smell, or feel/touch if you were “in” these pictures After you have compiled a brief list of sensory details, write a descriptive sentence about each picture.

The Narrative Essay • A narrative essay is a story written about a personal experience. • Writing a narrative essay provides an opportunity to get to know and understand yourself better. • Narratives provide human interest, spark our curiosity, and draw us close to the storyteller.

In addition, narratives can • Create a sense of shared history • Provide entertainment • Provide insight

Traits of a Narrative Essay • Usually written in first person – “I” • Usually rely on concrete, sensory details to convey their point • Usually include these story conventions: plot, setting, characters, climax, ending • ALWAYS make a point. You don’t tell a story just for the sake of telling…your story must make a point.

Show don’t Tell • What does show don’t tell mean? • Good writing tends to draw an image in the reader’s mind instead of just telling the reader what to think or believe.

Here’s a sentence that tells. • Mr. Bobweave was a fat, ungrateful old man. • That gets the information across, but it is BORING.

A sentence that shows… • Mr. Bobweave heaved himself out of the chair. As his feet spread under his apple-like frame and his arthritic knees popped and cracked in objection, he pounded the floor with his cane while cursing that dreadful girl who was late again with his coffee. • The writer didn’t tell Mr. Bobweave was fat, he showed it by saying his “apple-like” frame.

How can you show your ideas? • Use metaphors and similes: • She landed under the window like a falling leaf. • Use quoted language: bits of conversation can enliven your writing. • Know when to quit: If you think your readers would like a little more, write the little bit more and then delete it.

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Definition of descriptive essay.

A descriptive essay , as the name implies, is a form of essay that describes something. In this genre , students are assigned the task of describing objects, things, places, experiences, persons, and situations. The students use sensory information to enable readers to use their five senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight to understand the topic of the essay.

Qualities of a Descriptive Essay

Clear and Concise
Use of Images
Use of Five Senses

As far as clear and concise language is concerned, it is necessary to describe things precisely. Imagery is used to make things seem real and remarkable. The use of the five senses creates the imagery, or a mental picture, for each reader.

Difference Between a Description and a Descriptive Essay

A description could be just a paragraph, or it could be longer, as needed to fully describe the thing. However, a descriptive essay has five paragraphs. It is written in a coherent way with a good thesis statement at the end of the introduction , three body paragraphs , and a conclusion .

Examples of Descriptive Essays in Literature

Example #1: the corner store (by eudora welty).

“Our Little Store rose right up from the sidewalk; standing in a street of family houses, it alone hadn’t any yard in front, any tree or flower bed. It was a plain frame building covered over with brick. Above the door, a little railed porch ran across on an upstairs level and four windows with shades were looking out. But I didn’t catch on to those. Running in out of the sun, you met what seemed total obscurity inside. There were almost tangible smells — licorice recently sucked in a child’s cheek, dill pickle brine1 that had leaked through a paper sack in a fresh trail across the wooden floor, ammonia-loaded ice that had been hoisted from wet croker sacks and slammed into the icebox with its sweet butter at the door, and perhaps the smell of still untrapped mice.”

This description of the “Little Store” is not only clear and concise, but also has images and sensory information about the store building.

Example #2: And the Orchestra Played On (by Joanne Lipman)

“The hinges creaked when I opened the decrepit case. I was greeted by a cascade of loose horsehair — my bow a victim of mites, the repairman later explained. It was pure agony to twist my fingers into position. But to my astonishment and that of my teenage children — who had never heard me play — I could still manage a sound. “It turned out, a few days later, that there were 100 people just like me. When I showed up at a local school for rehearsal, there they were: five decades worth of former students. There were doctors and accountants, engineers and college professors. There were people who hadn’t played in decades, sitting alongside professionals like Mr. K.’s daughter Melanie, now a violinist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. There were generations of music teachers.”

In the first paragraph of this descriptive excerpt, the author clearly describes the decrepit nature of the violin case, as well as the damage time has done to the bow. The second paragraph is a description of the characters , and their similarities. Both use sensory information for effective descriptions.

Example #3: Yarn (by Koyoko Mori)

“The yellow mittens I made in seventh-grade home economics proved that I dreamed in color. For the unit on knitting, we were 1 supposed to turn in a pair of mittens. The two hands had to be precisely the same size so that when we held them together, palm to palm, no extra stitches would stick out from the thumb, the tip of the fingers, or the cuff. Somewhere between making the fourth and the fifth mitten to fulfill this requirement, I dreamed that the ball of yellow yarn in my bag had turned green. Chartreuse, leaf, Granny Smith, lime, neon, acid green. The brightness was electric. I woke up knowing that I was, once again, doomed for a D in home ec.”

See the use of colors in this paragraph by Koyoko Mori. This is called “pure description,” in that the description appeals to the senses. The use of word “brightness” in the last line is striking one.

Example #4: The Taj Mahal (by Salman Rushdie)

“And this, finally, is why the Taj Mahal must be seen: to remind us that the world is real, that the sound is truer than the echo, the original more forceful than its image in a mirror. The beauty of beautiful things is still able, in these image-saturated times, to transcend imitations. And the Taj Mahal is, beyond the power of words to say it, a lovely thing, perhaps the loveliest of things.”

Check this short description of the Taj Mahal by Salman Rushdie. This description presents a different picture of the Taj Mahal.

Function of Descriptive Essay

A descriptive essay presents a person, place, or thing, in a way that readers feel as if it is in front of their eyes, or that they are tasting it, or that they can hear it, or that they can smell it. Writers use sensory information to describe object . The object of the writer is to present a picture of something as honestly as he can.

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