Most forms of writing involve description. For example, in a short story characters and places need to feel real for the reader. Description of events, feelings and atmosphere helps to achieve this.

In your English language exam, you’ll be asked to create a piece of narrative or descriptive writing. Narrative writing tells story. This could be made up by you or based on something you’ve ...

When Sam Pulsifer, son of an Amherst, Mass., high school English teacher and editor, is 18 he accidentally burns down the Emily Dickinson House. Accidentally, because it was a dark night, and he was ...

From left, Danté Brown, Taelar George and Emmanuel Dominic, students in Raegan Thompson’s first grade class at Jackson Elementary School, stand in front of their descriptive writing assignments during ...