How to Write a Descriptive Essay

Nightjohn was a very short, but informative and immersive story. It informed us on how hard and terrible being stuck in slavery was. Along with, somehow amazingly doing it using so many small and not very descriptive words or sentences. It did have many different themes, but the ones I chose to write on were: prejudice, freedom, and leadership. No, denying the rights of any people is not okay and I don’t see how anyone ever thought slavery was okay, much less the right thing to do. People…

which create a devastating and depressing tone. When Twain writes, “every door of every…

I can’t pinpoint when I started writing. In essay writing I learned its always good to express yourself with your own opinion. In writing your suppose to use descriptive details and to always have a point to why you are writing the story. My writing didn’t until I came to college; being in your class has been teaching me how to write. It’s bad a way that I just started writing because I have way…

In "Civil Disobidience" by Thoreau, he explains the goverment and how it is being ran as a whole. Thoreau includes imagery,diction, and mode of discourse as an argumentative. He uses these devices to emphasize how he's againstamerican goverment. Thoreau uses mode of discourse and chose to write it in argumentative form. He chose to go against the goverment and stay true to his own belief system. Thoreau agrees with the qoute "The goverment is best which governs least." Thoreau agrees that no…

daunting, truth which most living species dread in life. The feeling of uncertainty and pain evokes fear among people. Two similar essays, “The Death of a Moth” and “The Death of the Moth” both accurately depict the nature of life and death in a descriptive and detailed manner. However, each author establishes their own purpose by approaching different stylistic choices and rhetorical strategies. While Dillard expresses that death serves a purpose, Woolf argues that death is final and will…

imagination to come up with what they want to write, and why they want to write it. Both authors made very descriptive points to how their minds wander on and off their writings while trying to write, concluding into two very different styles. They both often were writing about what they didn’t want to write about before they actually wrote what they wanted too .In most writers such as Orwell and Didion a purpose is not found before the writer writes, but often found after they have decided to…

narrative began as a slightly different list of vacations. Even within the vacations I had from the beginning I revised my ideas on the most important story from each. As I wrote the episodic narrative, I was able to gaze back at my past and discover how it has influenced me years later. The paper I began writing nearly two weeks ago looks nothing like my final copy that I will…

ninth grade. I would spend both day and night plotting and creating stories. By seeing my enthusiasm for writing, a teacher recommended me to write for my high school magazine. This opportunity brought me to another level; I discovered myself as someone who loves to leave a short message or advice for my article readers. Moreover, I was also taught how to write different types of essays in my own language, as a Cambodian who uses English as her second language. Based on my experiences, I can say…

career as a Paralegal. What I didn’t know upon choosing my career was exactly how much writing I would be doing. You never realize how important a skill is until you discover that you have to use it in every aspect of your future career. According to the Occupational…

strategies in John Keats’s: “To Autumn” Enchanting. Colorful. Changing. Words to describe the vivid imagery the season of autumn. A Famous poet by the name of John Keats wrote “To Autumn “, published in1819. He gives a clear descriptive image of the season of autumn for which he writes the actions that are visualized around him. He shares the movement of autumn, the visualization, and the character embedded into autumn with the audience. John Keats builds the imagery with similes, metaphors,…