+1 862 207 3288 Descriptive Analysis
Overview
Describing and analyzing are central features of essay writing. Description is key in helping readers remember your essays argument and details as well as making your writing come to life. Working with sensory detail and creating vivid descriptions will make almost any essay your write more persuasive and effective. The same can be said of thoughtful analysis and critical thinking. Throughout the semester we will be using writing to sharpen your critical thinking and help you understand how crafting language and discourse can follow different paths for persuasive ends.
Our first formal essay asks you to use your powers of description to make a physical place come alive to your reader. This physical place must in some way tie into your education or the education of someone you know. After hooking your reader with your description you will then use your powers of analysis to break the place down into several parts that add further insight into why your location is memorable. By the end of your essay, then, your reader will have quite a bit to consider about the place you have chosen and plenty of chances to be persuaded to your point of view on the value of this special place.
The Assignment
Compose a descriptive analysis of a place you feel has special and memorable qualities. This place must in some way tie into your education or the education of someone you know. Describe the location in rich detail and descriptive language. Then, analyze the location by breaking it into distinct parts to add further insight and interest to your topic.
Composing Advice: Part One
Your first task for this assignment is to select a location or topic. I suggest you pick a place that has a lot to offer. Obviously one would think of schools and classrooms here, but don’t be afraid to expand your understanding of education to include places off campus and the formal settings. The key here is to find a link between the place you are working with AND the ideas and readings we have been doing in the field of education and society. It would be a great idea to have access to the place as you write your essay and to visit so you can look closely and find more details and ideas to bring out.
After you have selected your topic (the place), you need to write a descriptive intro and overview of it. I would suggest composing a few paragraphs about what one would first see and experience as they approach the place and experiences it. Be sure to describe the outside of the building or place and things like parking lots, neighboring buildings, usual people in and around the area as well as the sounds of the place and area. Visual imagery may be key here. Next, you probably want to describe the interior or next stage of the place one would naturally experience. Sensory detail here is key: sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and touches, could all be fair game to use here. You could also include a bit of conversation one may here or direct the reader’s attention to specific feature of the place. Try to compose a couple pages rich in detail and let the reader experience the things the place has to offer.
Composing Advice: Part Two
The second part of your essays involves breaking down a bit more and offering specific insight into how the place could be viewed as having distinct parts that help it function as a whole. Don’t overthink this part of the essay; I hope you find this process natural to transition into. For example, analyzing a place such as a school could naturally turn into discussing the layout and separate parts of the school and how well they function. Perhaps the science lab has incredible smells and mystery and the hallways have unique features. You might think that this analysis is more tied to more descriptive writing; in fact, it is. The idea here is to use your powers of description to first introduce and familiarize your reader (in part one), then to further describe and categorize to analyze the parts and/or processes that together make the place memorable.
Source Use
Over the first few weeks we will be reading essays that use lots of description and bring the reader to understand tone and theme in a variety of ways. I would like you to cite or paraphrase one or two essays we have studied in your own essay. We will discuss ways to do this in class.
Special Assessment Emphasis
For this essay I am particularly concerned with your ability to avoid major sentence level errors (Fragment, Comma Splice, and Run Together Sentences), coordination (use of coordinating conjunctions) as well as overall essay flow and using Pronoun/Antecedents correctly. Essays coming up short in these areas will need to be revised. We will discuss and work with these grammatical/mechanical items in class and workshops.
Nuts and Bolts
• 4-6 pages
• Times New Roman 12 pt double spaced
This assignment is worth 15pts. max
This assignment may be revised with the instructor’s permission for a higher grade after handed back. Revisions are due within one week of hand back and must include the original graded essay.
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