This document provides information about descriptive writing, including its purpose of giving vivid details about how something looks, its social function of describing a particular person, place, or thing, and its generic structure of identifying the topic and then describing its parts and qualities through a series of paragraphs without opinions. It also discusses linguistic features like using specific participants, simple present tense, verbs of being and having, and descriptive adjectives, as well as common elements to include like what it looks, sounds, smells, and feels like and what it does. An example is given of describing a guava tree by its parts.