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Descriptive Writing Guide

This document provides guidance on how to write a descriptive essay. It recommends choosing a person, place, memory, experience or object to describe. The writer should have a clear reason for the description to focus their writing. Descriptive details should show rather than tell by using vivid sensory descriptions of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. When drafting, the writer should focus on specific qualities and include enough details to give readers a complete impression. Revising involves ensuring sufficient description, removing unnecessary details, conveying emotion, and ordering paragraphs effectively.

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Descriptive Writing Guide

This document provides guidance on how to write a descriptive essay. It recommends choosing a person, place, memory, experience or object to describe. The writer should have a clear reason for the description to focus their writing. Descriptive details should show rather than tell by using vivid sensory descriptions of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. When drafting, the writer should focus on specific qualities and include enough details to give readers a complete impression. Revising involves ensuring sufficient description, removing unnecessary details, conveying emotion, and ordering paragraphs effectively.

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18/09/2022

How to Write a
Descriptive Essay
PRIMARY VI
TR. MICHELLE

What do you want to describe?


• A person
• A place
• A memory
• A experience
• A object

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Why are you writing your


descriptive essay?
• Find your particularly reason for writing descriptive
essay.

• Getting in touch with this reason can help you focus


your description and imbue your language with a
particular perspective or emotion.

• Ex: If you want to describe your grandfather, You've


chosen to write about your grandfather's physical
appearance and the way that he interacts with people.

How should you write your


description?
• It's the famous saying: show don't tell.

• Ex1: I grew tired after dinner.


• Ex2: As I leaned back and rested my head against the top of the chair, my
eyelids began to feel heavy, and the edges of the empty plate in front of me blurred
with the white tablecloth.

• The first sentence tells readers that you grew tired


after dinner. The second sentence shows readers that
you grew tired. The most effective descriptive essays
are loaded with such showing because they enable
readers to imagine or experience something for
themselves.

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Focus on the five senses


• sight
• sound
• smell
• touch
• taste

• When you focus your descriptions on the senses, you


provide vivid and specific details that show your
readers rather than tell your readers what you are
describing.

Quick tips for writing your


descriptive essay
• Planning your descriptive essay:
• What or who do you want to describe?
• What is your reason for writing your description?
• What are the particular qualities that you want to focus on?

Drafting your descriptive essay:


• What sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures are important for developing your
description?
• Which details can you include to ensure that your readers gain a vivid impression
imbued with your emotion or perspective?

Revising your descriptive essay:


• Have you provided enough details and descriptions to enable your readers to gain a
complete and vivid perception?
• Have you left out any minor but important details?
• Have you used words that convey your emotion or perspective?
• Are there any unnecessary details in your description?
• Does each paragraph of your essay focus on one aspect of your description?
• Are you paragraphs ordered in the most affective way?

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