A description creates a word-picture, using careful details to make an impression on the reader.
Most essays call for some kind of description.
Recognize your purpose. To inform, clarify, persuade, or create a mood.
Describe clearly, using specific details. Details make descriptions crisp and clear.
Select only appropriate details. Create a dominant impression, or controlling focus, that conveys a mood or feeling.
Make your descriptions vivid. Use sensory details and figurative language.
Remember your audience.
Provide ample and precise details.
Avoid an erratic organization of details.
Arrange details in an orderly way, for example, top to bottom, outstanding characteristics first, or the order in which you approach something.
Avoid any sudden change in perspective.
Present any shift in point of view logically and with no sudden leaps.