descriptive essay.
Descriptive
Writing a Descriptive Essay
Four items of a descriptive:
- It creates a tone, an image, a feeling, about your topic.
- It uses specific examples to support this tone.
- It supports those examples with the senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
- It brings your essay alive for your reader; the reader can actually imagine what you are writing about because of the vivid details you provide.
Writing a descriptive essay
- Purpose (a clear thesis)
- Action (something will happen)
- Perhaps conflict (but maybe not)
- A main impression supported by at least three of the senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, touch
Writing your essay
- Select a topic
- Make sure it is a topic that can be described in two or three pages
- Write your thesis and focus on one overall impression you want to relate to your readers.
- Write your rough draft.
- Peer edit and revise your draft.
- Evaluate and do a final reading.
Essay essentials
- Your essay must be at least two pages set up in MLA style.
- It must include:
1. A clear thesis
2. Supporting evidence (a narrative) for your thesis that includes a true story about your life.
3. At least three of the five senses (sight, smell, sound, taste and touch.)
4. Vivid details.
5. A clear conclusion