Writing a Descriptive Essay
The descriptive assay provides details about how something looks,
feels, tastes, smells, makes one feel, or sounds. It can also
describe what something is, or how something happened. These essays
generally use a lot of sensory details.
Topic:
Think of your favorite place to visit. What do you like about this
place? What do you do there? How does it look smell and feel? Write
an essay describing your favorite place to visit so that your
reader will be able to picture it.
1st Paragraph/ Introduction
State your topic sentence. Ex. My favorite place to visit is my
grandma’s house.
Give 3 reasons to support your topic sentence.
2nd Paragraph
Restate your 1st reason. Give details and examples to support this
reason.
3rd Paragraph
Restate your 2nd reason. Give details and examples to support this
reason.
4th paragraph
Restate your 3rd reason. Give details and examp