How to Write a Descriptive Essay

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    book. First the author writes using interesting vocabulary words, and writes in a way that makes you want to keep going. When the author wrote, When he flung himself against the bars, quivering and frothing, they laughed at him and taunted him. They growled and barked like detestable dogs, mewed, and flapped their arms and crowed (pg 33), I was anticipating what was going to happen next. Using descriptive language, it makes the book more interesting to read. I also like how Buck, the…

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    vocabulary and write more complex sentences that vary in length. Each project that I worked on helped me overcome obstacles that I previously struggled with. This English class has truly given me an chance to practice and improve my writing skills. The first project, "Writing Process with Metaphor," gave me an opportunity to think about my personal writing process as well as compare it with another process. In the first pre-writing exercise, I thought and wrote about the process I use to…

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    however, the writer would benefit on lessons on using more descriptive verbs as well as adding more details to the story. Her sentences tend to be very short and straight to the point. In teaching how to use descriptive verbs, writers are taught to describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader’s mind (Forney, 2001). Forney explains that by teaching writers to capture an event through descriptive writing requires writers to pay very close attention to…

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    was a kid. Welty also writes her story in chronological order from when she outside the store to when she gets ready to leave.Pieces of evidence throughout the story will show the order in which she writes. In the beginning of the story Eudora Welty writes “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”(406). This sentence is in the beginning of the story and it demonstrates how the author starts…

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    “Learning to Read and Write”, by renown Frederick Douglass, makes an effective argument against slavery by using pathos to appeal to the reader 's emotion. The document explained from his point of view, that he was treated “perfectly” fine as a house slave before slavery came into full effect. He also expounds on the fact, once slavery was fully effective, his mistress, Mrs.Hugh, changed for the worse toward him. In the text it states,“Unders it’s influence, the tender heart became stone, and…

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    graduation, it happens for college’s students. They must write a thesis or paper as their requirement. That’s why students can not be separated from students learning process. Writing in every education level will have differences. In elementary, junior, and senior high school, students will learn the writing from the easy text to a difficult. Based on the 2013 Curriculum, in Junior High School students, they will learn how to write a simple descriptive text. Then,…

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    tell her poem in the perspective of a mother speaking of her incarcerated son. In the poem the protagonist is a single black mother speaking of her son who’s gained the nickname scribe (the title of the poem) for his poems and love letters. “Scribe” writes for his inmates so they are able to send letters to their mothers and girlfriends. He uses his words to maintain important even in a place as bad as a prison. The protagonist is the mother of Scribe. She is the one sharing her emotions about…

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    essay we are going to answer the big question,” How does this novel explore the theme of monsters?”Ammaniti uses monsters as a means of exploring the effects of fear on Michele as he uncovers his parents ’horrible secret. Near the beginning of the Novel Ammaniti uses monsters to explore Michele’s understanding of why Filippo is imprisoned. Furthermore Michele uses monsters to try to explain himself, why the boy is in the hole. This is where Ammaniti writes,’(she) put her breasts in our mouths to…

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    of essays my teacher had me to write, the skills she taught me, weekend study sessions, peer reviews, and her constructive criticism has played a huge role in the improvements of my writing. In my school the only classes that taught you what you needed to know for your grade level were AP courses. Other teachers took it easy on their students just to pass them along to their next grade level…

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    CBM Reflective Essay

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    student who writes the most, shows how they are able to come up with ideas about the topic during the assessment. I decided to grade the assessment this way because it will show me how much each student can write per each minute. I am not particularly concern about the use of punctuation, spelling, and grammar. But more concern about how much they can write about a particular subject and how much vocabulary they have. Since all my students are in third grade they should be able to write up to 37…

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