Writing with description is often found in all the styles of writing essays. However, a descriptive essay is one that contains very little criticism, persuasion, or dialogue (unless the dialog helps describe the topic, such as a person’s accent). To write a good descriptive essay, a student should start with a focused topic, a person, a place, an inanimate object, or a certain event. One guideline the writer should follow is to organize the descriptions into a clear pattern. Start your introduction with a general detail and work to specifics, and complete the description with a thesis.
For example, “Here is Tom. He has deep brown hair. He wears his hair in a short, straight style because it is thinning at the crown. Tom’s eyes are blue, topped with short brown lashes. His nose is straight and flares only slightly at the nostrils. Tom has a short clipped mustache above his rounded mouth, bookended by deep smile wrinkles. In other words, Tom is an average American male.” The general detail is “Tom”, the description of his head and face are the specifics, and the summary “average American male” is the thesis. The rest of the essay should contain additional paragraphs describing Tom and supporting that he is an average American male. Finally, the conclusion should restate the thesis.
A great descriptive essay will have detailed observations that invoke vivid image in the readers mind. Your descriptions should appeal to all the senses of the reader, to show them with dramatic or creative details not just tell them. One tip to invoke the senses is to compare an ordinary item with an extraordinary item. “Tom’s brown hair reminds me of mink, with its healthy, glossy, burnish and thickness despite the bald spot at the crown.” As you continue to write your description, one tip to keep in mind, keep the thesis, stated in the introduction, in forefront, “average American male”.
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