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Concepts

1. Explaining Concepts

2. Definition is used to provide the meaning of a given word or term and making its meaning clearer. Definitions can be presented in three ways: formal, informal, or extended . 2

3. Formal definition is a one-sentence explanation that includes the term, class, and distinguishing features or characteristics. The term is the word or phrase to be defined, class refers to which the term belongs or the general category of the term and distinguishing characteristics are the qualities that make the term different from other terms in the same category.

4. Example : Term Verb Class Distinguishing Characteristics Carbohydrates are A food group including sugars, starches, and cellulose.

5. Informal definition involves one or more paragraphs that try to explain a complex term. This type of definition applies various patterns of paragraph development (e.g. narration, comparison and contrast, formal and informal definition, process, analogy, cause and effect) to explain a given concept. 5

6. Examples: Term Verb Class Facebook is a social networking website . Term Synonym Verb Class freedom , also referred to as liberty or independence. is a state when people are free to think and do.

7. Extended definition involves one or more paragraphs that try to explain a complex term. This type of definition applies various patterns of paragraph development (e.g. narration, comparison and contrast, formal and informal definition, process, analogy, cause and effect) to explain a given concept.

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9. Explication 10 is a method of explanation which uses a critical interpretation of a concept. Referring to sentences, verses, quotes, or passages from another source; explication gives another perspective of a concept. It interprets another work by looking at the idea/s introduced. Through careful analysis of points brought up in text, a clearer explanation of the concept is given to readers. This can be presented through comparison and contrast, description, cause and effect and other patterns of paragraph development (Valdez 2016, 61).

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11. Clarification 13 is another way of explaining a concept wherein the points are arranged from a general abstract concept to specific concrete examples. It involves the analysis of the concept by looking at the examples and specifying a number of its features to reach at one working definition.

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