Thursday, June 28, 2007
THINKING FOR YOUR SELF 2
Word precision: how do I describe it?
Writing challenges you to stretch your abilities to use the words you know and to fine new ones.
The advantage of having a precise vocabulary to describe your experience is that it enables you to learn and experience even more
When we learn a new word, the definition shows us what boundaries separate it from every other word.
Definitions set boundaries for word ideas and show us their specific and general characteristics and how they are related to or distinguished from one another.
Testing of our understanding of a word is particularly important for words representing key ideas that we wish to explain or defend
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