Descriptive Essay
admin January 17th, 2008
Among the other essay types descriptive essays give a vivid picture of a certain person, place, memory, experience or an object. The writer of this essay type has to describe the object of his/her essay using detailed observations. Thus, what you experienced or perceived can be the focus of the descriptive essay.
Without any doubts all essay types are interesting to write, though, of course, it depends on the person’s likes and dislikes. Still, descriptive essay remains one of the most interesting essay types. Is it not a great creative exercise to write simply about what you are observing. Although, when writing your descriptive essay, you have a specific reason for writing and description. Getting in touch with this reason may help you imbue your language with particular emotion.
What differentiates descriptive essay from any other kind of an essay? Descriptive essay aims to show but not only tell. Let us consider 2 examples:
I stopped talking as soon as I heard somebody’s knocking at the door.
Our exciting conversation was interrupted by a terrifying knocking at the door, that sounded like a thunderstorm on the sky covered with dark clouds.
The first sentence is a dry statement of information when the second one providing the reader with images. Thus, the second sentence is showing. Such kind of sentences enable the reader to imagine or experience something. That is why this type of sentences are preferable to be used in your descriptive essay. if you use them properly, your descriptive essay will obviously be successful one.