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Visit Ch. 8, Showing and Telling:

Description, Narration, and Example, in
MyWritingLab to complete the Essay

Assignments.

Write an essay describing a place. It can be a store, office, nightclub,

park, beach, street, parking lot, church sanctuary, stadium, or any

place of your choosing. In your thesis statement, sum up the dominant

impression in one word if you can. Some suggestions are shown

below.

cheerful colorful filthy orderly

cluttered disgusting spotless chaotic

serene dull crowded lonely

bleak gloomy eerie noisy

messy elegant exciting calm

shabby depressing impersonal cozy

Descriptive Essay 2: Describing a Person

Write an essay describing a person. It can be someone you know well,

such as a friend or relative, or someone you see often but don’t really

know, such as a library worker or a fellow student. Be sure that you