Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170624011641/@comment-25936766-20170723011008

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Really finding the description aspect of this new template redundant. Like, everything I say in description is adequately said in Introduction already, so I just delete it. Remember, Introduction is to describe the Semblance in a few words, 3 lines at most, for the sake of the SSMASLE. If the Introduction already describes the Semblance well enough, it's fine to skip the Description part (and you should, otherwise it'd be truly redundant).

But, sometimes it would not be a good idea to describe the Semblance in only a few words. Unless it's a simple Semblance, leaving out most details about the Semblance for the sake of "keeping it short" means it can cause misunderstandings, leave questions in the air, and make it harder to tell if it's Balanced or Not, or (depending on what's written in the Introduction) even make people still wonder what it really does.

The "Description" part is not redundant per se. It's there to provide Detailed descriptions that answer any potential questions, that leave less-or-no doubts in the readers. "Keeping it short" could Describe the effect....Describe it well, not always.

The Introduction is meant to be Laconic, Description is meant to be descriptive when the Introduction wouldn't suffice by itself.