Week 13: DESCRIPTIVE ESSAYS

This week we have been explained what a descriptive essay is. Besides, several weeks agowe were taught to write narrative essays and discursive essays. Thus, after this week I have understood the differences between these 3 type of texts or essays.

Firstly, in a narrative essay there must appear characters, a plot with its climax, dialogues between characters and a chronological order, which is essential for this type of writing. Connecting words such as "first, the, secondly, thirdly, later, after that..." are suitable for narrative texts.

Secondly, in a discursive essay, the thing is different. We can be giving our opinion in an impersonal way, doing a comparison and constrastin ideas or showing some cuses and its effects about something in special. In myopinion this is  the most difficult type of essay. All in all, you have to analyse something and give some details abut it.

Thirdly, in a descriptive essay the main point is to focus on some event or place and give as much details of it as possible. You also must focus on the five senses, and analyse the odor, the taste, the smell, the touch and the sight, using a lot of suitable adjectives to make it more vivid and real to the reader. I personally love this type of writing because you can be as exaggerated as you want telling your point.

And here it is the best descriptive text example that I've found on the Internet. I like because it is authentic material from some literature book.

“It was a cold grey day in late November. The weather had changed overnight, when a backing wind brought a granite sky and a mizzling rain with it, and although it was now only a little after two o'clock in the afternoon the pallor of a winter evening seemed to have closed upon the hills, cloaking them in mist.”

As can be seen, the 5 senses are emphasised everytime and so much detail is given thruough adjectives.

This week has been curious since I was with a pair of friends who love in a crazy way basketball. Then, what I did in order to improve my English was to watch NBA games in English. Thus, hearing the commentators I think I have improved in some sense my listening skills. It's the hardest one for me!


Written by: Ana Martínez Jiménez