Techniques for Writing Extended Definitions and Descriptions

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)