Horner, Rachel2023-03-292023-03-292022https://hdl.handle.net/1813/112879This worksheet introduces students to the distinctions between active and passive descriptions, which I describe here as ‘showing’ and ‘telling’ respectively, to demonstrate how writing from observation-based details, rather than conclusions drawn from these details, often makes for more engaging and effective writing. Although the worksheet centers ethnography and thus might be best suited for instructors and students in the social sciences, it can easily be tailored to teach descriptive writing in any discipline.en-USAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationalwriting exercisesshowing and tellingactive and passive descriptionethnographycreative writingother