The phrase "a plain description of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate a straightforward or uncomplicated explanation of something.
Example: "The report provides a plain description of the project's objectives and expected outcomes."
Alternatives: "a simple explanation of" or "a clear account of".
Eighteen studies were descriptive studies (no design study, just a plain description of the interventions, context factors, implementation process or effectiveness).
A plain description of astrology as an "occult influence of stars, planets etc. on human affairs" had no impact on the general public's assessment of whether astrology is scientific or not in a 1992 eurobarometer poll.
The rise in the amount of data between 1995 and now beggars plain description: of all of recorded information created in all human history, most of it has been created since 2010.
He argues that the very flatness of the staged colonial postcards, with their plain descriptions of a foreign place and its people, persuaded French viewers of the photographs' authenticity.
The descriptive matrix approach generates a data set that can be readily converted to a "plain language" description of the species (term from DELTA) which is easily compared to other descriptions using the same matrix.
Conceptually, it's no different than reading a plain language description of legal rules and applying those rules to your own situation.
He began his session with the news media with what he called a "plain English" description of what the Fed had done and why, a contrast with the practice of Ms. Yellen and her predecessor, Ben S. Bernanke, both Ph.D. economists who prefaced their appearances with long prepared statement loaded with monetary policy jargon.
The web version provides a graphical representation of the putative promoter region predicted in all the input sequences (Fig. 5) and a plain text description of the results.
This is a plain-English description of a loan's terms and costs, describing the type of loan — adjustable rate or fixed — and whether there is a prepayment penalty, for example.
This information includes a plain-text description of the current unit operation, the system status, the amount of time remaining for timed steps, and live video from the active reactor(s).
Such Amish-plain descriptions of activity make up most of this novel's nearly 500-page bulk: "He had to wait for two cars and then he mashed down on the gas and they headed out.
