ASSIGNMENT: EXPANDED DEFINITION

Chapter 11 in Burnett explains informal, formal, operational, and expanded definitions. To prepare for this assignment complete #5 on page 350.

Expanded Definition Paper

The expanded definition paper will be similar to the fugue example we worked on for homework in that it will incorporate various types of definitions and visuals, as they are appropriate to your audience.

1. Choose a term that requires expansion for a specific audience. Write a one sentence formal definition of the term including term, genus or classification, and differentia.
2. Prepare a detailed audience and use analysis in narrative form. In your audience and use analysis identify the technical level of the reader, the use the reader will make of the definition, i.e. why your identified reader requires this expanded definition.
3. In two typed pages define your term using appropriate expansion strategies as described in Burnett, chapter 11.
4. In pen, in the margin of the final draft, label the strategies and types of definitions used, as we did in the warm-up exercise on the fugue.
5. To develop this paper you are required to conduct secondary research; use a minimum of four sources. Photocopy sections of secondary research used within the paper.
6. Using the citation style appropriate to your discipline (ask professors in your field and check manuscript requirements in technical journals in your field for citation style information), prepare a reference sheet for all sources. Check my Web Page for online documentation information.

The final portfolio will include: all prewriting, photocopies of source material marked / highlighted where specifically used, audience and use analysis, expanded definition labeled with strategies, reference sheet.