"descriptive paper" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a specific type of writing assignment, in which the writer is asked to use vivid language to describe a person, place, or thing. For example: My English professor assigned us a descriptive paper, in which we had to create a detailed and vivid picture in the readers' minds of our favorite place.
I defended my dissertation as three stand-alone articles, including two experiments showing that emotions influence whether opposition supporters in Zimbabwe express their pro-democracy preferences and a descriptive paper showing that repression has a larger effect on the behavior of the poor.
This descriptive paper outlines our institutional experience integrating focussed ultrasound training into a 3-month Resuscitation Medicine module.
This is, indeed, a descriptive paper because further methodological requirements should be specified to discuss the causal nature of the relationship between the selected covariates and the outcome (Pokropek 2016).
For instance, a descriptive paper dating back to the 1930s reports that an unusual south-easterly storm caused extensive damage to forests in the Tararua Range in 1936 (Zotov et al. 1938).
In this descriptive paper, we describe the V line, a sign that we believe may help the clinician sonographer detect the presence of plural fluid in the supine patient and may also aid the less experienced sonographer to differentiate between the black 'shadow' or 'curtain' created by normal lung and the anechoic area that represents free pleural fluid.
However, this descriptive paper was meant to provide preliminary data and lessons learned regarding various innovations to address decreased time for teaching anatomy to medical students.
Detailed descriptions of recruitment, sample descriptions and methods employed can be obtained from their respective baseline descriptive papers [HCS: 44, ARMHS: 45].
The other 24 are descriptive papers about the project's activities and intervention sites, such as one study (PDF) that measures HIV mortality rates in general.
Of the descriptive papers reviewed here, nearly 50% found differences in the assemblages between contaminated and reference areas.
It includes both descriptive papers focusing on the content of the ceremonies and theoretical papers contextualizing and examining these within the broader ethical, scientific, medical and educational frameworks.
The reference list helps to find analytical data referring to the descriptive papers that may be scattered throughout monographs and specific books on the matter.
