Description Vs Explanation

For scenario 1 I was debating whether the paragraph was a description or an explanation. I knew right away that it was not an argument because it was not trying to prove anything. The first sentence says “there are many similarities between police and correctional staff in the use-of-force abuses, the code silence, and feeling or isolation”. If this paragraph was an explanation then the rest of the paragraph would go on and state-specific definitions and explanation, explaining how and why there are similarities between police and correctional staff.
In the end, I decided that this paragraph was in fact, a description. I decided that it was a description because the paragraph goes on and says sentences like “the most striking differences between …show more content…
Later in the paragraph, it says that the reason why is because police presence reduces crime rates. I realized that there are certain statements that make this paragraph a clear description. Statements such as “Assumed that the presence of officers…”, “core assumption of the professional….”, “critics began to argue that….” All of these statements coincide with the definition of a description which attempts to tell us that X is the case, without offering any actual proof.
Scenario 8- Explanation After reading this paragraph I immediately thought that is was an explanation, because the very first sentence consists of the backbone of the explanation. “There are several reasons why increasing police patrol has a limited impact on crime”; this sentence says there trying to explain something, later in the paragraph, it goes into exact detail. The phrases “patrol officers are spread so thinly…... “Crimes cannot be deterred by police patrol”, and “crimes that occur in residences are not going to stop because more police are patrolling the streets” all tell us that X is the case. In this paragraph X is, increasing police patrols have a limited impact on