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The document discusses strategies for providing an extended definition, including giving examples, comparisons, descriptions, details, historical background, implications, and different styles (formal vs. informal, technical vs. popular). An extended definition aims to fully explain an unfamiliar concept using multiple techniques to ensure the reader understands what is being defined.

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EAPP

The document discusses strategies for providing an extended definition, including giving examples, comparisons, descriptions, details, historical background, implications, and different styles (formal vs. informal, technical vs. popular). An extended definition aims to fully explain an unfamiliar concept using multiple techniques to ensure the reader understands what is being defined.

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CONCEPT PAPER

AS EXTENDED
DEFINITION
• This is to ensure that your reader
understands the concept that you’re
defining, a combination of several
rhetorical strategies is used to extend a
definition. You can give examples of the
term.

WHAT IS EXTENDED
DEFINITION?
• This is advisable when the term is not too
familiar or popular with the audience.
What you can do is compare and contrast it
with something more popular or familiar to
your audience.

COMPARISON & CONTRAST


• For instance, the concept of imperialism may not be
known to many and therefore, difficult to explain, but if
you use a parallel situation of a landowner being driven
out of his land and the intruder attempting to steal the
property from the owner, you might find success in your
effort.

COMPARISON & CONTRAST


• Through description is another strategy: you can
physically describe something by giving its dimension
(shape, size, color, texture), parts, and functions, as in
defining what an ATM is. Nonphysical description can be
done by giving characteristics to define something. For
example, to define ‘malicious’ intent, you can use
synonyms like malevolent and spiteful.

GIVING DETAILS
• Background may also enlighten the
audience about the meaning of a concept.
This strategy is particularly useful when a
concept’s definition has gone through
changes in time; you can do research to
improve the content of your definition.

GIVING HISTORICAL
• A good example is the meaning of
femininity. Certainly the concept’s
meaning has changed given the socio-
cultural changes that every community
goes through.

GIVING HISTORICAL
• To extend a definition can be done by
discussing the idea’s components and/ or
its implications. Implications are the far-
reaching consequences of a concept.

ANALYSIS
• For example:
In defining ‘globalization’ you can explain
one of its consequences: the homogenization
of cultures (or cultures losing their uniqueness
and becoming very similar) as a result of
frequent exchanges and interaction between
and among countries becoming very easy.

ANALYSIS
• In terms of style, a definition may be
formal or informal, or technical or popular.
In a formal definition, a concept is defined
by first giving the class to which the term
belongs and then proceeding to a
discussion of the characteristics that make
the term different from other related terms.

GENUS ET DIFFERENTIA
• For example, if you’re defining the concept ‘sole
proprietorship’, you start by saying that it’s a
business (class) that is owned and operated by one
person (distinguishing characteristic). Then you
can extend the definition by perhaps comparing it
with a company. A formal definition is often what
is required in the academe. It uses research- based
information. In contrast, an informal definition
may be just based on a person’s personal views.

GENUS ET DIFFERENTIA
• A technical definition, as the term says, makes
use of technical language or specialized
vocabulary of a field, which is why it is not
easily understood by a person who lacks the
necessary background or training. A popular
definition, in contrast, makes us of layman’s
language and is thus easy to understand. A
technical definition is often a formal definition.

GENUS ET DIFFERENTIA
• A set is a group whose members are called
elements of the set. A member of a set is
said to belong to the set. If one set contains
every element of another set, then the
second set is a subset of the first.

TECHNICAL DEFINITION
• A set is a group of things that belong
together. Often the group members can be
subdivided into subgroups. For example, a
family is a group of people who are related
by blood. One subgroup of the family is
the parents; another subgroup is the
children.

POPULAR DEFINITION

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