How to Write a Descriptive Essay

barely a scientific piece. I thought that this piece was going to be great because I was very descriptive and visualized most details of my experience. I thought it would be a good idea to stand out with this piece instead of writing a boring piece that was going to say the same things that my peers would write about. During all of my previous writing classes, I was taught that I should be more descriptive and have…

Sedaris’ writing techniques that make him a preeminent humorist. David Sedaris uses a writing strategy that is imaginative and appeals to an individual’s fantasy. From the first paragraph Sedaris leads his readers to believe that he will write story about how happy he was about the snowfall, mainly because “school was cancelled.”(163) Instead his main concern is to show his seemingly dysfunctional family. The relationship that existed between David’s mother and his siblings was outrageous. He…

enough room for them” (Burke) according to the New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Instead they were sent to an off site location to watch the anniversary on a television. In the article, No Firemen at Ground Zero This 9/11? by Michael Burke, Burke writes to the politicians of Wall Street two days before the 10th anniversary of 9/11 to persuade them to support him in the demand of giving the firemen and…

2. Hughes uses Paul Robert’s “How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words” by applying colored words to his selection. Colored Words are just words that have more meaning behind them both good and bad. For example, the story states, “ My aunt told me that when you were saved you saw a light, and something happened to you inside.” (Hughes, page 83). In this case, the light is a positive color word. He goes on to say how the light symbolizes meeting Jesus, and how if not seeing the light meant…

his family immediately went back to work. This event shows how quickly things can change. To show the peaceful to dark tone transition, the author uses metaphors and personification. Frost gives the buzz-saw animal-like qualities to show the young boy had no control over it. For example, Frost writes. “As if to prove saws knew what supper meant,…

Throughout my many years of schooling so far, writing has always been something that I have had a little trouble with. For this reason, being in this honors writing class my first semester of college made me a little nervous. Once I began the class and started on the first paper, I started to gain some confidence that I would do fine. Even though there were challenges in each paper I wrote, I also feel I made improvements through each paper. The first paper assigned was a narrative; it had to…

have a deeper meaning than just, you need to believe this way because it is cool. In “Travels With Charley,” Steinbeck uses a very descriptive word choice when explaining the views he has on the places he visits, but does not use that throughout the entire story. However, in “A Life in Letters,” Steinbeck uses almost no strong word choice other than a few descriptive words in a few of the letters. He is not trying to persuade or really describe very much as his goal in writing was to tell his…

“Review.” The task of this assignment was to write a 2 to 3-page review of any cultural event or venue from a Chicago neighborhood. Thus, I reviewed a restaurant and based on the task, I included a brief history of the restaurant, décor evaluation, Food/menu evaluation and a conclusion typical “the bottom line” style of the RedEye in my review. I was also required to write a cover letter to let my instructor know explaining why I chose the restaurant, and how I worked within the genre to bring…

Cialdini about how certain factors affect the effectiveness of environmental public service announcements. I will also apply the ideas presented by Cialdini into a real life situation. In Cialdini’s piece, he uses two important real life examples of how public service announcements have proven either successful or proven to have conflicting messages that compete with one another, rendering the overall goal ineffective. As Cialdini writes, there are two types of norms: descriptive norms, which…

murder of the Herbert Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. Capote uses a lot of detail to help illustrate the insanity of the murderers and the effect the murder had on the small farming community. The suspense that is a result of minimal facts and descriptive settings was an elaborate stylistic technique that gave effective results throughout the book. Capote writing the story in more than one perspective allows Capote to not have a bias towards either side. In one section in particular, Capote…