How to Write a Descriptive Essay

thesis should be for class essays. My theses in previous papers were usually very simple and descriptive of the text. Writing a thesis that encompassed the ideas of being SAFE—significant, arguable, focused and evidence-supported—was one of the most important things that I learned throughout these past few weeks. Writ 1 has taught me how to effectively argue my ideas in academic writing by learning how to write a SAFE thesis. The thesis that I wrote for our first preliminary essay did not…

from reading the book, and I will check for understanding of the expectations, and familiarize with the questions focusing on key details, forming Oral Questioning: What does describe mean? What words do you use to describe? I will make a T-chart to write some words. What is a character? A setting and a plot? Who are the characters? What is the setting? What is the plot of the story? What major events…

literary devices to not only paint a picture but provide the tools for the reader to add their own colours thus giving the reader a chance to develop their imagination and thus their versatility. For instance, throughout the story, the author uses descriptive imagery and carefully curated words to converse with the oft unexplored corners of the human mind. Sentences such as: “I had given up, and instead of sliding hard and compact into doom I found myself made into ribbons of gauze, drifting in…

I enjoyed Poe’s descriptive vocabulary, his first person point of view, and his gothic stories. Ray Bradbury was another author that my class studied this semester. I enjoyed his many metaphors and his abstract descriptions in his story “Fahrenheit 451”, but I found the book hard to read due to the flow his writing had. Writing, like art, comes in many different fashions. Poe, a short story writer with a gothic style, and Bradbury, a highly descriptive science fiction author, write about very…

autobiographical essay, I wrote about my passion for running and how cross country fed this frenzy. Watermelon is one of the biggest fruits, but it has some of the tiniest seeds inside. My love for running is like the vast size of a watermelon—it was the big idea of the essay. All of the experiences I use in my essay are like the tiny seeds—they are the small details that make up the big idea. I can easily find comparisons between my descriptive paper and a pineapple. The outside of a…

because my students were about to learn how to…

She told me that the more I write, the better I will be. I wrote about seeing snow for the first time and I described the icy cold feeling of building a snowman. I described the adventure of dog sledding down a steep mountain and the cold breeze I felt while I was ice fishing. Who…

years ago. Writing has become more important to me in the last couple of years. When I was younger I would write here and there of just stories, but when it came to writing an assignment, I never wanted to do it. From when I was young to now I still have not written a lot. I tend to struggle to complete my own works, but when it came to school all I needed to do was research in order to write what I thought was a good paper. I learned through the years that everything is setting me up to be a…

from his speech that day. The election of the 45th president of the United States has been a controversial roller coaster. While describing his goals for the next four years as president, Trump seems to adopt a hopeful tone and uses much vivid and descriptive diction and syntax to rhetorically impact his inaugural address. President Trump uses what many of supporters could say was a hopeful tone. If one were a president, hope is something…

have a different meaning to many people. The study of that word, however, can help us bridge some of the misunderstandings that develop when belief systems go wrong. Greg Trimble, of gregtrimble.com, uses a substantive definition of religion. He writes about rebinding or reconnecting yourself to God (http://www.gregtrimble.com/meaning-of-the-word-religion/) . He qualifies his…