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Descriptive essay are used for the purpose of testing your emotions and your creativity. You must be creative enough to deliver or convey your thoughts exceptionally to your reader. Here are some steps, and by following these you will learn to write a descriptive essay. In the end, some tips are also given to make your essay more effective.

What is a Descriptive essay?

A descriptive essay gives a clear and detailed description of something depends on which topic you are making a descriptive essay on.  A descriptive essay reveals the true meaning of the subject in detail, by using sensory observations.a

How to write it?

Like all essays, the steps may be the same but the content and elements vary in all steps of the essay.  So for knowing how you can write a descriptive essay, go through these all steps.

Topic Selection:

Select your topic first. Try to choose that subject, which you can describe in detail. Your subject should be vast and covers many different parts. So, you can describe it easily.

Gather information:

Perform research. Collect data and information that suits your topic. You can get different ideas through the internet or articles. But making those ideas effective and creative, you have to use your senses and creativity.

Outline:

After gather information, outline it. It is an important step in writing any type of essay or even any writing piece. Outline makes your work easy and quick to do. So give an order to your information and data. Make chunk points of the data and write it in points and divide it into three sections; Intro, body, and conclusion.

Describe all details:

Write down details of every point that you have mentioned in your outline. Write even minor details of the subject. Use your senses, emotions, feelings, and figurative language to enhance the effect and description of your subject. Your descriptive essay must have such a feeling that if someone read it, he feel like he was part of an essay. You must develop such vibes in your essay to attract your readers.

Give your essay an order:

After outlining and describing all the points of an essay. Now make a draft and give it an order. Arrange the topics and add them to their respective part.

Structure of Descriptive essay:

·        Introduction:

This part should include all those points that are related to the background of the subject. Write your thesis statement in the beginning or the ending lines of the introductory part.

·        Body:

This part contains all the description of the subject that you researched. Give all the details you can use different ways and use different stylistic language to enhance the visual imagination. And yes you can write what you imagined. There is no hard and fast rule in the descriptive essay. Write whatever you feel and what you think your audience should feel.

·        Conclusion:

The conclusion part is a summary of the whole essay. You give your final views and close your essay by leaving an impact on your audience. Your ending must in that way that brings your reader to you again.

Tips to make descriptive essay effective:

With some tips and tricks, you can make your essay more effective and attractive. Here are some points that can help you out in building an excellent essay.

Use your senses:

Use your all senses in writing a descriptive essay. For example, if you are writing:

Example: The grass was soft and green and seemed fresh.

Improvised sentence: The grass was so soft, that made you feel like you were walking on a silky path. Its greenery looked so fresh that it takes all your worries and make your mind fresh and relaxed.

It is your senses that tell you what it feels like ho you will feel when you touch it in real.

Use figurative language:

Use figurative language in a descriptive essay. Figurative language includes idioms, metaphors, onomatopoeia, simile and symbols etc

Example: The sun was shining brightly in the sky.

Improvised: The bright yellow sun was beaming down on my shoulder, wrapping me in a cover of sunshine.

Use suitable language:

Use language depending upon your targeted audience. If you are writing this for the university level then it must be highly structured and choose some advanced words. But if you are writing generally, then use high-frequency words that are commonly used in daily life. Because there might be some people that don’t know the meaning of advanced words i.e. low frequency. Select your words that suits your audience i.e. reader.

An essay should be organized:

Your essay should be well organized and well structured. This will hold your readers stick to your essay. If it is not organized enough, then it could distract your readers.