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My Descriptive Essay: the Best Travel I ever Had!

If you want to present good descriptive essays, then this article is a good example for you!

In order to be successful with your descriptive essay’s writing, it is very important to follow a certain structure: make everything step by step and you face no problems.

First of all, you should make an interesting topic – your task is to attract your readers’ attention! So, do it for your descriptive essay! If you want to get great impression and you are looking for some interesting adventures, then such an essay as mine is for you:

The Best Travel I ever Had!

As you may guess in this essay I want to share something interesting and catching information with my readers.

Secondly, when your descriptive essay’s topic is ready, it is high time to think about the splendid introduction – your thesis statement. It should be one-two sentences, which can present the main idea of your descriptive essay:

It was an ordinary morning, which did not promise anything great – a simple travel on the train to my grams. Thus… We cannot be sure about the next minute…
A good thesis statement is prepared. Your readers are eager to get to know what made this ordinary travel the best in my life!

Thirdly, it is important to develop this idea in a necessary way! Present the burning facts, which may be interesting to differently oriented public.

I made up my mind to start with the music, which accompanied me all my way to the station. Then, stopped on the fact that the bus has broken and I was on my way to miss the train. I tried to catch taxi – in vain! Finally, one car noticed me… It turned out to be my future husband…

Of course, it is a very short variant of the story. I hope you like the chosen way of writing and your descriptive essay will be much better!

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Problems related with descriptive essay writing

Descriptive essay writing is a very problematic process. You should not think that nothing can be easier than writing a descriptive essay. Indeed, there are a lot of problems which are on the watch for you in descriptive essay writing. You will discover it as soon as you set to write your essay

Of course, you can discover the descriptive essay problems on your own. But you will surely need a help, because it will not be so easy to solve them on your own, as well. Therefore we decided to tell you what problems you can face, and to teach you to solve them.

1.The first problem is a lack of vocabulary stock. You see the object, you try to describe it, but your word stock is not enough, and you cannot find the words to describe the object effectively. So, you should train yourself, and exceed your vocabulary stock by means of reading a lot.

2.Another problem is that you can find out that you are not able to describe an object because you cannot see it all the time or because you realize it quite bad. In this case, we recommend you to use additional material, which will help you to imagine the object better.

3.You may also be in a difficulty to write a detailed description if the object does not have a number of specific features. But, believe me, it also depends on your vocabulary stock. As soon as it becomes well-developed, you will easily cope with the task.

You are unlikely to face more problems while writing your descriptive essay. In any case, if you face more problems, they are unlikely to be related with descriptive essay writing only. And now, we do not speak about general problems. We discuss only problems related with description essays. And, I guess, we have prepared you quite well, and you will easily manage to solve the problems which you could come across while writing your descriptive essay.

Descriptive Essay: How to Find a Job?

The questions concerning searching a job become more and more burning nowadays. We want to find a good job at once after we finish our education, or even during our study. Your teachers try to help you in every possible way. Writing a descriptive essay about the ways for searching a job is one of such move.

When you start writing a descriptive essay, you begin to think about your future job, how it should look like, etc…With the help of the descriptive essay you develop not only the ideas of job searching, here you also pay attention to the possible development of your writing skills and thinking abilities.

The main task in any descriptive essay is to present a thorough description of the chosen subject. So, before you one more catching assignment takes place – to find necessary description of the actions, which should be done in order to achieve the desirable results.

If you pick out such topic for your descriptive essay as searching a job, but you cannot decide what you should start from, then this list of ideas may help you:
Point out that to have a good will-power is one of the main factors, which can help you with your searching.

Present your possible ideas about your future job: try not to be general, pay attention to the details and do not forget about the facts, which prove the correctness of your thoughts.

Use the statistics – with the help of generally known facts you can quicker make a right choice.

So, in order to present a good descriptive essay, you should awake your positive attitude to the topic! Do it and start writing.

Steps to writing a descriptive essay

When you write a descriptive essay, it is better if you have a plan of writing. I mean that a student preparing a paper should plan all his or her actions beforehand. It is very useful, especially for those students who are really busy and do not feel like wasting their time. Though composing of a plan takes some time, you will save much more time after, when you set to work, because you will not have to think about what to do next and how to make it better. A plan will direct your work, saving your time.

We offer you a plan of a descriptive essay writing. It consists of several steps, and you can pass to the following step only after completing the previous on. Otherwise you will get into a mess mix, and you will have no choice but to start from the narrow beginning.

Choose a descriptive essay topic.

Make sure that you have knowledge enough to compose a descriptive essay on a chosen topic. If you discover a lack of knowledge, you had better fulfilled the stack at once.

Think over the topic development within your descriptive essay, and compose its outline. The outline should be full of details if you do not want to forget or to miss something important.

Write a descriptive essay as it was planned. Do it slowly, do not start writing the next part if you have not finished the previous one. Remember that you have to write essay according to the outlined order. It is not acceptable to compose separate parts and combine them after completing all of them.

Revise your descriptive essay for mistakes. Correct all the mistakes you will find, and repeat a revision once more to make sure that your paper contains no more mistakes.

The Most Forbidden Topics for the Descriptive Essay

To write descriptive essay is very interesting, but you should not go too far. What I mean is that, the purpose of any descriptive essay is the depiction of some event or feeling, etc. which the author has gone through so that the reader can imagine the whole picture of the objects described. Thus, you should not describe in your descriptive essays the following things:

  • You should not comment upon some operations you have gone through, since these details will only distract the reader’s attention. Moreover, it is unpleased to read about somebody’s operations;
  • You should not write about the death of your pets. This will also bring some gloomy moods on your readers. Do not make them cry;
  • You should not criticize people’s habits, which you consider to be awful, since some of the readers may have these habits, and they will think of you as a rude person;
  • You should not make use of slangy words in your descriptive essay, since it should be educative in character, but not abusive;
  • You should not resort to unreliable sources of information; otherwise you can be accused of lying.
  • You should not start your narration from the dénouement, since in this case it will not be catching to read. You should stick to the effect of suspense in your descriptive essay, so that the reader will not have any opportunity to stop reading your essay.

As you can see there are a lot of things, which you must not do when writing your descriptive essay, if you want to be properly assessed.