Strawberries can increase the body's production of a hormone that stimulates your metabolism and suppresses your appetite. They can slow the rate of digestion of starchy foods. This helps control the rise in blood sugar that follows a starchy meal. This is a key benefit for those with adult-onset (Type 2) diabetes.
In general, all noncontributing method elements need a brief description. A brief description provides a one or two sentence description of what the element is (in other words, what content the element contains). Brief descriptions should be written at the time the element is identified.
The aim of description is to make sensory details vividly present to the reader. Although it may be only in school that you are asked to write a specifically descriptive essay, description is an important element in many kinds of writing. Description embedded in an argument paper, for example, may be intended to make a position more persuasive. However, in this TIP Sheet we will discuss the descriptive essay as it is commonly assigned by instructors as an exercise in organizing sensory information and choosing vivid details.