Archive for July, 2008

Anger in your Descriptive Essay

If you think that we are going to discuss the ways of getting angry while writing a descriptive essay, you are wrong. Once you want to get angry with any assignment, you will not need any additional tips. Instead, we suggest you to describe the anger in your descriptive essay.

Every minute thousands of people are getting angry. I am sure that you also have a lot of moments when you were angry. Yes, anger is a feeling that any person (even the most calm and relaxed one) can experience. Some people are getting furious very easily. Others need some really good reasons to lose their temper. Anyway, there are instances when people cannot control their emotions and feelings.

So, why not to talk about it in your descriptive essay? Definitely, we do not suggest you just to talk about the feeling itself. By means of describing it, you can find some solutions how it can be managed.

Here are some tips for:

•    Try to describe particular situations when people can get angry.
•    Describe the emotion itself. Think about peoples’ faces, gestures, language. Usually, this makes rather bad impression. People look unattractive and even ugly sometimes.
•    You can describe yourself when you are angry or some of your friends.

Actually, these descriptions should serve as a deterrent factor from aggression and anger. For instance, if you tend to lose temper easily, you can imagine yourself in this condition and probably you will do it on some very rare occasions. Thus, in your paper you can give not only some descriptions, but also find valuable solutions.

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The Mistakes of the Descriptive Essays

You are sure to know that the descriptive essays are about giving the details. Indeed, the details make our speech and our writing rich and more interesting. Descriptive essays teach you how to use the details correctly, since it also require specific knowledge and skills.

One may think “What is so hard or special about giving the details? You just need to describe something in more colorful words”. Yes, giving more words in the descriptive essays is not difficult. However, not all these words will be to the point and not all of them will contribute to the successful piece of writing.

Have you ever seen such notes in your margins “what is your point; not clear; explain”? Do you know what they mean? They mean that your reader (in your case it is tutor) was confused by what you have written. Actually, it is a bad sign and it is a common mistake of many students.

What is more, it means that you do not know how to use the details properly. You can use them just to confuse the reader.

So, what can you do about this situation?

•    You have to check whether your details have not turned into the generalizations or empty abstractions.
•    You have to make sure that you have provided the reader with the background information. Your details should be related to certain information introduced previously.
•    You should also check whether you just have not got of the subject. Probably, you have been carried away by the details that you started to talk about something else.

So, giving the details is not easy and you should learn how to do it.