WHAT IS A DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY?

The core feature of a descriptive essay is quite simply that it describes something. When your professor assigns you to write a descriptive essay, they are testing your ability to write in a coherent manner and your ability to organize your thoughts as it pertains to describing something. In writing a descriptive essay, you might be asked to describe yourself, something that is around you or something imaginary. Regardless, the focus on structure description is the main characteristic of a descriptive essay and is something that you must remain concentrated on as you write your descriptive essay. Writing a descriptive essay requires that you understand that your main task is to ensure that your reader is capable of visualizing or imagining what you are writing about. This means that you can use your five senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch to describe whatever you have chosen to focus writing your descriptive essay on. A vivid description is one of the core goals of writing a descriptive essay and the more perspectives of description that you provide when writing your descriptive essay, the better your grade will be, as long as you maintain appropriate organization of your descriptive essay.