Descriptive passages are something I struggle with, both as a writer and as a reader. If I’m reading a book and hit a long paragraph of scene-setting, I have to struggle to keep from skimming a ...

For example, “Jazz is better than pop music,” “If you want to pass the exam you should study,” “Killing an innocent person is wrong.” The point here is to see that there is a difference between ...

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A survey gathers information from a sample to construct quantitative statistics that describe the size and attributes of a larger population. For example, descriptive statistics can be used to ...

The term descriptive geometry is still used for this method of representing the vertical and horizontal projections of an object. However, the modern term for the method is orthographic projection.

What is a descriptive name? a name, company trademark, or logo that vividly describes what a company does or the product and services a company renders to people. A descriptive name is common among ...

Welcome to the Descriptive Grammars and Typology conference Over the last few decades, there has been a tremendous increase in the production of descriptive grammars for languages that had previously ...

Tore Nordenstam, DESCRIPTIVE ETHICS IN THE SUDAN: AN EXAMPLE, Sudan Notes and Records, Vol. 48 (1967), pp. 90-98 ...