Techniques for Writing Extended Definitions and Descriptions
Posted April 8th, 2008 by suzanne
Taken from TCT p. 519 and ch 19
- origins/ history
- "The word forensic comes from the Latin word forensis: public"
- "The word piezo is Greek for "push". The effect known as piezoelectricity was discovered by brothers Pierre and Jacques Curie when they were 21 and 24 years old in 1880."
- examples
- "An example of a solid solution is brass. An example of a liquid solution is aqueous hydrochloric acid (HCl in water). An example of a gaseous solution is air."
- negation
- Behaviorism "dismissed the inward experiential and sometimes the inner procedural aspects as well"
- partition (spatial, temporal, organizational)
- The Paleozoic Era "is subdivided into six periods, the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, and Permian"
- The CEO reports to a Board of Directors and oversees the CFO, CIO, and director of human resources.
- similarities and differences:
- Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) "is a more recent protocol than the Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP)."
- analogies
- pictures
Others from your examples:
- function ("the general manager is also responsible for doing X")
- relevant quotations (see Dennis's leadership definition)