Descriptions

What is a descriptive text?

A descriptive text usually focuses on describing a single location, object, event, person, or place. It endeavors to engage all five of the reader’s senses to evoke the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and feel of the text’s subject.

As with all genres of writing, we can guide our students on how to best organize and structure a descriptive text effectively.

In this article, we’ll take a closer look at how to choose a topic for a descriptive text, prepare an outline, and ultimately produce a well-written descriptive text.

The steps for writing a great descriptive text

1. Select a topic
2. Write a thesis statement
3. Evoke the subject’s sentence
4. Create an outline
5. Write, write, write!
6. Redraft, edit, proofread