DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY Write a 500-750 word essay YOU PICK THE TOPIC
choose a subject, a person, a place, an object that you know well, for you will need to include many specific details. It also helps to choose a subject for which you feel something (positive or negative).
Give your description a sense of life by using multi-sensory details. Use your five senses.
Please do not write about birth, death, religion or any bodily function or injury. Write about someone, something that you know about personally, and most importantly, have a reason for writing There must be a purpose to the writing.
For example, If you choose your cat, I might begin with the Pink Panther movies, from which we took the name Kato. As a kitten, she would in similar manner attack on every occasion and without warning. From these contextual details, move into your thesis statement.
Your thesis will identify the subject of your description and should make some statement about that subject.
Body Paragraph 1: Physical Characteristics
Body Paragraph 2: Personality
Body Paragraph 3: Habits
In your conclusion, refer to your thesis, indicating again what significance your subject holds for you. Be careful also to avoid clichés. use the Modern Language Association (MLA)