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The Way of Writing an Essay

One of the most interesting assignments, which may be given to the students, is writing a descriptive essay. In the fact, in your descriptive essay you may pick any topic you want and present interesting presentation. It may be your week end or your love story; you may tell your readers about your last purchase or about the book, you have read recently.

Very often students prefer to write their descriptive essays about what they know for sure. The main purpose of any descriptive essay is to demonstrate the abilities of the students to give the necessary issues, which may help you to describe the subject properly.

In order to be successful with your descriptive essay writing it is necessary to follow several rules:

  • Present your personal ideas about the subject;
  • Find interesting words, which may improve your descriptive essay – citations, references…
  • Make a detailed presentation – when you try to pay attention to the trifles, it may raise your chances to get a good grade.

I offer you to write a descriptive essay about your last supper – how it was, what the ingredients were, what the conditions were, etc… This topic sounds very simple, but if you pay attention to the details, it may become a real masterpiece of your own! Remember Hemingway? How he could describe the things, which are unnoticeable at first glance, but significant for our life… Maybe it is necessary for you to read something from classics?… It may awake your abilities, you desire to write and create your own projects…

So, if you want to get your A+, it is possible to do with writing a descriptive essay! Good luck!

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How to Write Descriptive Essays

From the very beginning it is easy to understand that the main your goal while writing descriptive essays is to describe something. It can be whatever you like: a personality, an event, an animal, a subject and so on.

There are several methods that are usually used for writing descriptive essays. You can use examples, method of comparison, method of bright and precise language.

It is very important for the descriptive essays to be detailed. The reader should get the full picture of what you are describing. What is more, your description should arouse some emotions and feelings.

To write a detailed descriptive essay you can do the next:

  • You have decided on the topic of your work. Once you have a clear idea of what you are going to describe, start making the first sketch. You should write down all the words that come on your mind when you think about your chosen subject.
  • After that look at the list that you get and start thinking of the details for each word.

If you want to have a lot of bright and fascinating details, you can ask yourself several questions.

  • What is important and interesting about your chosen subject?
  • What associations are connected with this subject?
  • What do you feel when you see the subject?
  • What was happening around when you saw the subject?
  • Were there any smells, sounds, tastes when you saw the subject?

You should try to make the readers feel the same that you have when you first saw the subject. By the way, only the details will not be enough for that purpose. You should think of specific words that will help you to convey all the feelings. After reading your descriptive essay the readers should have a feeling that they saw, touched or were somewhere near the subject.

Descriptive Essays

1.jpgDescriptive essays are aimed at describing some object, thus, for instance, some place, feeling, person, or some thing, etc, so that the reader will be able to imagine the whole picture of the thing described.

So, when you take for writing descriptive essays you should clearly define the subject. You may resort to any stylistic tools, which are up your sleeve, such as different stylistic devices: metaphors, epithets, similes. You are also welcome to use questions in your descriptive essay, but then you should provide answers to them. So that not to puzzle the reader. He/she should get pleasure when reading your descriptive essays, but not lie guessing what you mean.

Another very important point in writing descriptive essays is the clear content. This means that you should not draw a veil over the subject of your essay, you should try to express your thoughts in such a way so that it will be as easy as interesting to read it.

Besides you are welcome to describe events, which happened to you personally. This will bring freshness to your narration, besides it is always rather exciting to read about real events than about fiction. So, the next point is truthfulness of the utterance.

The last point to make is the proofreading of your descriptive essay. Every time you reread it you may notice some misleading facts and correct them and you may check whether there are enough facts for the reader to imagine the whole picture. Thus, rereading of the essay will be very helpful for you when you want to express your thoughts as clearly as possible.

The Essence of the Descriptive Essay

The descriptive essay is a type of the expository essay. Another expository essay variation is an informative essay.

The expository and the informative essays have a lot of common features. However, they are not the same. There is a great difference between the descriptive and the informative subkinds of the expository essay. And this difference can be considered as an essence of the descriptive essay.

While the informative essay deals with the generally recognized facts, the descriptive essay is normally based on the student’s vision of the object or even. It is very partial and personalized. The student does not have to take into consideration the generally accepted points of view while writing his or her descriptive essay. If you see something in a different way, you will describe it differently than the other writers. Fort example, if the sun seems to you to be square and blue, you are not forced to write that it is round and yellow. You can write that it is blue and square, because it is your personal vision. And, what is more, you do not have to prove your words, or to provide any evidence, since the descriptive essay does not provide for supporting elements.

So, the essence of the descriptive essay is a reflection of the student’s inner world, of his or her way of thinking and vision of the outer world. You are not confined to observe the opinions of your mates or of someone else. Just write what you see, and you will compose a perfect descriptive essay.