English-expanded definition
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- Commonly used in formal papers or academic essays to ensure that misunderstanding or miscommunication will not happen.
- It offers expanded analysis and illustration of a concept that might be abstract, debatable, controversial, unfamiliar, or frequently misunderstood.
- Consists of three parts: the term being defined, the class it belongs to, and it's distinguish characteristics.
- Explains unfamiliar word/term using synonyms or antonyms introduced by or, in other words, or like.
- Sense of humor is the ability laugh and to make others laugh.
- Sense of humor means to appreciate a joke or to perceive humor.
- How many techniques/approaches are there in making expanded definitions?
- Sharing a word's origin
- Discussing the history of the term, it's used, controversies associated with it.
- Listing and defining the component parts; identifying smaller, more familiar pieces of an idea to the definition of the bigger concept; using a word that creates a pictures in the reader's mind so that the reader might relate through memory of sound, touch, hearing, or smell.
- Discussing how the topic in question functions, including any special materials or conditions required.
- Showing how the topic fits into a larger category.
- Defining a term by explaining what the concept is not; showing how the topic differs from others in the same class.
- Showing how the topic is similar to others in class.
- Explaining by comparing two dissimilar topics where the second is familiar to the audience.
- Telling a story that illustrates the term.
- Providing a picture or image that is used to clarify a text.
- Consists of a sentence which explains the meaning of a word or concept with more informative details.
- Consists of a word or phrase, oftentimes a synonym.