Week 4

• Expanded definition

  • commonly used in formal papers or academic essays to ensure that misunderstanding or miscommunication will not happen.
• Negation

  • defining a term by explaining what the concept is not; showing how the topic differs from others in the same class
• Analogy

  • comparing two dissimilar topics, where the second is familiar to the audience
• Historical references

  • discussing the history of the term/ its use/controversies associated
• Etymology

  • Sharing a word’s origin
• Description

  • listing and defining the component parts;
• Examples

  • telling a story or example that illustrates the term
• Three parts

  • the term being defined, the class it belongs to, and its distinguishing characteristics. An informal definition explains an unfamiliar term using synonyms or antonyms