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Because a description is a text that creates an image in the mind of the reader, it should give information to the reader in the same way that the reader would get the information directly. If a person were actually observing the same thing as the writer describes, how would she take in the information? Let's suppose that you are trying to describe a scene. What would the person do to get the image of the scene into her imagination if she were actually there? She see things; she would hear things, smell things, feel things. She would take these things in either in some kind of sequence or simultaneously.
Good creative writing requires good description, but what should you describe, and how much? Here are writing lesson assignments to help. Here’s a simple writing exercise to help you find a comfortable level of description in your creative writing, followed by further exercises to refine the use of description. Write a description of your walk, using every appropriate adjective when describing what you saw. Don’t worry about using too many – this is supposed to be overblown. Write a second description of your walk without using any adjectives or descriptive phrases.
Descriptive paragraphs are often used to describe what a person looks and acts like. Read this example descriptive paragraph, notice how descriptive paragraphs are arranged by putting together all the sentences about the same thing. Here is an example of a descriptive paragraph:
How to Write a Biography Biographies are delightful fun essays that most students enjoy writing. According to Webster's Dictionary, a biography is— 1: a written history of a person's life; 2: biographical writings as a whole; 3: an account of the life of something (as an animal, a coin, or a building). In your class work, Biographies will be simple (and usually quite short) essays about someone else's life. An autobiography on the other hand, is a story (or essay) about your own personal life. As this section is about Biographies, you must keep yourself out of the essay altogether.
A biography is a written account of the series of events that make up a person's life. Every student will write a biography at some point, but the level of detail and sophistication will differ. A fourth grade biography will be much different from a middle school-level biography or a high school or college-level biography. However, each biography will include the basic details.
Biographies analyze and interpret the events in a person's life. They try to find connections, explain the meaning of unexpected actions or mysteries, and make arguments about the significance of the person's accomplishments or life activities. Biographies are usually about famous, or infamous people, but a biograpy of an ordinary person can tell us a lot about a particular time and place. They are often about historical figures, but they can also be about people still living. Many biographies are written in chronological order.
Learning how to write a speech is a daunting task. Where to start? The journey usually starts with a blank piece of paper and a few scattered ideas in your head. Here's my first tip: That blank sheet of paper is your worst enemy, and will continue to be so until you take the first tentative steps to write your speech. My purpose in showing you how to write a speech is not to force you to use a system that may not work for you.