ASSIGNMENTS

DEFINITIONParagraph Writing:Definitional Information TransferDirections: Referring back to Exercise 7-1, choose two of the formal definitions which you wrote and develop each of them into a short paragraph of extended definition. Be prepared to explain how you have extended or expanded your original definition:Purpose or usePhysical descriptionVarious kinds or typesAdvantages or disadvantagesHistorically interesting information

DEFINITION

PROBLEMS IS DEFINITIONIdentifying Problems in DefinitionDirections: Below are some definitions which do not meet the requirements for a good definition. Explain which problem arises in each. Then rewrite the definition in an acceptable way. Your definitions may be only one or two sentences.

A ranch is a place where cowboys live.Problem: overrestricted Your Definition: A ranch is a large farm, particularly in the American West, on which large herds of cattle, horses, or sheep are raised.

PROBLEMS IS DEFINITION1. A grocery store is a place where people buy food.Problem:Your Definition;

2.Art is something found in a museum.

3. Pollution is the process whereby chemicals are dumped into rivers.

4.Language is a means of communication.

5. Democracy is a democratic system of government.

Analyzing Stipulated DefinitionsDirections: Read the following three paragraphs of stipulated definition. Answer the questions which follow each paragraph.

THE FORMAL vs. THE STIPULATED DEFINITION

The American concept of success has not changed much over the two centuries of its existence. The average American thinks about personal success in terms quite different from the rest of the world. First, it has always meant providing your family with a decentstandard of living with some margin of comfort. Second, it means ending your life in a higher and more prosperous position than you began it. To an American, it is clear that success is the result of hardwork, self-reliance, and is "Cod's reward" for American virtue. The lesson that success lay in your own hands became ingrained because it was within the reach of any free man. Because Americans have consistently been "successful" within this meaning of the term, they have not altered this view substantially.

THE FORMAL vs. THE STIPULATED DEFINITION

Questions1. Why is this interpretation of success a

stipulated definition rather than a formal definition?

2. What is the topic sentence? 3. What type of development is used to support the topic sentence? (enumeration, process, chronological order, cause-effect, comparison, contrast)?4. What kinds of supporting material have been used (examples, details, anecdotes, facts and statistics)? 5, Do you notice any repetition of words? 6, What do the following pronouns refer back to in the text? (One of them does not specifically refer back to anything.)it (line 4) it (line 5) it (line 7) it (line 7)

PROBLEMS IS DEFINITION1. A grocery store is a place where people buy food.Problem:Your Definition;

2.Art is something found in a museum.

3. Pollution is the process whereby chemicals are dumped into rivers.

4.Language is a means of communication.

5. Democracy is a democratic system of government.

THE FORMAL vs. THE STIPULATED DEFINITION

Paragraph Writing:Stipulated Definitions

Directions: Write a paragraph of definition for HUMOR. Remember that you will be stipulating your personal interpretation of the meanings of the words. At the end of each of the paragraphs, indicate the type of development you have used.

1. Will be using the term in several different ways (enumeration and/or contrast)

2. Will be using the term in a way which differs Significantly from the dictionary definition (contrast)

3. Will be showing that the explanation of the term has several different parts (enumeration)

4. Will be showing how the meaning of the term has changed (chronological order and/or contrast)

5. Will be writing of causes or of effects in the course of his explanation

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