The document provides guidance on how to write a descriptive essay. It explains that descriptive essays aim to create a vivid experience for the reader through detailed observations rather than facts. It advises the writer to identify the topic they want to describe, which can be a person, place, memory, experience or object. The document also notes that descriptive essays appeal to the reader's senses by describing what can be seen, smelled, heard, tasted and felt about the topic.