Hunter High School Exam

Remember, this essay is often written written without the “I” although you can be subjective. If you can find no other way to NOT refer to yourself, use the phrase “this writer” or “the author”, as in “this writer walked down the path of the park and almost tripped….” Use this method ONLY IF there is simply no other way to show you very specifically are affected by something as an other. Otherwise use “one” or other ways to write. We’ll discuss how to do this.

• You may bring in other sources if you want, though it is not required.
• Details and a close eye are important to this type of essay.

If you love to people watch and watch the world go by when you are in the train, cafes, or walking around, this might be a very fun essay for you. Use your “nosiness” to your advantage with this essay. Description – what it is: Description tells the reader about the physical characteristics of a person, place, or thing. Generally, description relies upon the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. In rhetoric, description is fundamentally concerned with dominant impression: through the arrangement of details, the writer emphasizes the mood or quality of a thing. The thesis or central point of a descriptive essay is supported by the use of words that work to convey your dominant impression of a person, place, or thing.

Descriptive essay and our theme of New York, place/home, neighborhoods: Topic suggestions and guidance for picking your own topic: Here’s further explanation on this topic and what options exist with it. There are several variations on this topic you can use, this is just the main one. Read on for several possibilities you can think about and then narrow down to your own specific preference. These are ideas to get you started on focusing on a topic. Brainstorm some topics down on paper. With inspiration from E.B. White’s “Here is New York” and our forthcoming readings on Maeve Brennan “the Long Winded Lady”, how would you describe aspects of New York’s unique qualities with inspiration from the way E.B White has? Make sure this is totally different from your first essay. But perhaps you touched upon something very briefly in your first essay that you might want to explore in a descriptive essay.

Another variation to think about it is: with inspiration from E.B. White and Maeve Brennan, write about a single street, walk, shop, person/character or specific part of a neighborhood you know well and how it’s changed, stayed the same or both. You will rely on observation but you can also incorporate some outside sources if you want to. The overall idea of this topic is writing with good details about a specific place in NY and its interesting or quirky characteristics, or to write an overall piece that is about NYC or Brooklyn’s or any other borough’s unique characteristics, in the way EB White wrote about it.