The phrase "a straight description" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to convey a clear and direct account of something without embellishments or interpretations.
Example: "In the report, I provided a straight description of the events that took place during the incident."
Alternatives: "a straightforward account" or "a direct description".
In clues with containers, the definition gives you, as ever, a straight description of the word or phrase.
Somehow a line like "He takes us inside his hurt" feels more precise than a straight description of a song's musical construction or sonic effect might be.
Gellhorn's essay begins with a straight description of the conditions in the court, albeit an atmospheric, closely-observed description: "The air conditioning was too cold, and yet one sweated".
Qualitative description aims to provide a straight description of phenomena in everyday language [ 28].
In terms of analysis, therefore, we report a straight description (close to the data as recorded) of the participants' views and perspectives rather than a thick description, theory development or interpretative meaning of their experiences.
The descriptive-qualitative approach enabled the researchers to "stay close" to the data and understand the subjective experiences of the participants; this is considered the method of choice when a straight description of the data is desired (16).
Firstly, in terms of analysis, the aim of QD is neither thick description (ethnography), theory development (grounded theory) nor interpretative meaning of an experience (phenomenology), but a rich, straight description of an experience or an event.
After his two co-commentators gave a fairly straight description of the first circuit and handed back to him in the grandstand, he did a journalist's job in clarifying the situation, telling millions of viewers: "Well, here's one of the greatest sensations ever in the Grand National.
This study design provides a rich and straight description of an experience or event with researchers staying closer to the surface of their data in interpreting the meaning of experiences and events.
In the following passage, which comes close to the end of "Slaughterhouse-Five," Vonnegut neatly sets up a similar emotional jolt, with statistics in place of Hcmingway's straight description: [O'Hare] was looking up the population of Dresden, which wasn't in the notebook, when he came across this, which he gave me to read: On an average, 324,000 new babies are born into the world every day.
We used qualitative descriptive methodology for this exploratory work to develop rich, straight descriptions of a phenomenon [ 32, 33].
