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Description Sep. 11, 2012 What is a good description? To describe an experience, person, place, or object is to give a verbal account in detail. A good description helps the reader see, hear, and feel what you are describing; it also does more, for it helps the reader know the experience, person, place, or object you are describing. If you are describing a sunset, the task is not only to help your reader see as a camera sees, but also to experience with you what it is like to see the sunset. Remember, no one sees, hears, and experiences something exactly as you do. Do not ever simply give in when you come across difficulties to describe. Your descriptions should come from your own perceptions. When you describe someone or something, you give your readers a picture in words. To make the world picture as vivid and real as possible, you must observe and record specific details that appeal to your readers’ senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch). More than any other type of essay, a descriptive paper needs sharp, colorful details. There was an old fan in the window. The blades of the rusty window fan clattered and whirled as they blew out a stream of warm, soggy air. How to compose a descriptive essay? Your main purpose in writing description is to convey to your reader your dominant impression of the person, place, object, or experience you are describing. Vivid details are the key to descriptive essays, enabling your audience to picture and experience what you describe. 1. Stress details and develop a thesis. dorm 2. Let yourself become involved with whatever you are describing. . 3. look for meaning in the ordinary. . 4.When describing people, let them speak for themselves when you can. . . Assignment 1 person Sample 1) A photo and the story behind it 2) an acquaintance of mine Assignment 2 object Sample 1) coin Assignment 3 place Sample 1) campus * * *