How to Write a Descriptive Essay More than many other types of essays, descriptive essays strive to create a deeply involved and vivid experience for the reader. Great descriptive essays achieve this affect not through facts and statistics but by using detailed observations and descriptions. What do you want to describe? As you get started on your descriptive essay, it's important for you to identify exactly what you want to describe. Often, a descriptive essay will focus on portraying one of the…
Quick Tips for Writing Your Descriptive Essay Writing a descriptive essay can be a rich and rewarding experience, but it can also feel a bit complicated. It's helpful, therefore, to keep a quick checklist of the essential questions to keep in mind as you plan, draft, and revise your essay. Planning your descriptive essay: • What or who do you want to describe? • What is your reason for writing your description? • What are the particular qualities that you want to focus on? Drafting…
Note: This is the complete assignment from the beginning to the end. Descriptive Essay Assignment: Final draft is due -Monday, February 24, 2014. Directions: Use the MLA style as describe on my policy syllabus. Final draft must be typed. You should use as your guide the Sample Essay “Salt Marsh” in your Longman textbook on pages 135 - 136. Due Wednesday, September 19, 2013 Writing Assignment: Like Martinez, describe a place where you go to collect your thoughts and get in touch with…
Descriptive Essay Title: Your Ideal Roommate Living far away from home for couple of years for studying in colleges or universities allows many students have to acclimate themselves with many variations. One of these changes is living or sharing a same apartment or room with a completely strange person. In that case, how strangers could become an ideal roommates? This is about my ideal roommate Samantha who is a very cooperative person, would share a room together, and would have to help…
ENG12 – Descriptive Essay Chelsea Park Happiest Place on Earth Last Christmas, I spent 5 fun-filled days and 4 magical nights in Disneyland. Daily weather in Anaheim was beautiful. The driveway leading to the park entrance was lined with tall palm trees as they stretched to the heavens in the blazing sunshine. Everyone’s face shone with joy and the children shook their parent’s hands from side to side screaming happily. The sweet smell of fluffy…
Sean Lesure Per.3 English 11 AP Mrs.Hamill Rough Draft of Descriptive essay I push the door open. The bell rings, with a soft but shrill ring. A wave of rubber gloves and disinfectant masked with air freshener smells are in the air . Chairs are cluttered in the waiting room of the dentists. Clusters of magazines lie on the wood coffee tables, shiny bright plastic showing logos and slogans. A little way forward from where I stand is a desk. A smiling…
My Descriptive Essay “My hidden castle” When I was younger there was a place I used to go when I was sad, angry, or confused. I went there often. It was a rather large castle hidden on an Island and surrounded by a forest. It was where I felt safe. This was my hideaway when I was in foster care; somewhere I could go to when things got to be too much for me. The castle was a two story building that covered most of the island, apart from the forest that surrounded it. The caste was made of stone…
Aidan Stacey Descriptive essay Blurred by the rush I wait Sitting slouched on an alumium bench , head down. As all mall benches, it lacks a back support. People say this is because many mall owners don’t want people sitting around too long. They want them Browsing and buying. As I lifted my head my pupils dilate to see all that was going on. There is plenty of noise, light and boisterous behaviour. It is ludacris , controlled chaos. My attention is caught by a struggling mother with crows eye…
Descriptive essay Tony Ding Block 2-1 My hometown- Ningbo My hometown Ningbo is in Zhejiang province which located in the south east part of china. The city lies south of the Hangzhou bay, facing the east china sea to the east.. it’s the centre of the province’s transportation network. Ningbo is a famous destination city for travelers; it’s also a historical city. There are many beautiful views in my hometown…
Kylie Harrison English 1104-34 October 8, 2012 Descriptive Essay It was a hot muggy afternoon during the early season of fall. The wind was strong that day, the force blowing against my hair causing it to rise and fall as the wind came and left without warning. I could feel the sun beating down upon my back, causing my body to fight against the heat to stay cool. The constant sound of voices ring in my ears and throb my forehead. I was at the picnic table outside the bridge of Bryant place…