{"id":17567,"date":"2016-08-29T18:38:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T18:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=17567"},"modified":"2016-08-29T18:38:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T18:38:29","slug":"english-how-to-define-a-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-how-to-define-a-term\/","title":{"rendered":"English:  how to define a term"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor offers clarification about what a definition does.<\/h1>\n<p>Often, in an English essay, the writer might need to define a term.  From a working point of view, what does a definition do?<\/p>\n<p>According to <u>Harbrace<\/u><sup>1<\/sup>, a definition gives similar concepts (or nouns) to the one being defined, afterwards explaining how the term of interest is different from the other similar ones.<\/p>\n<p>An example:<\/p>\n<p>A desktop computer is similar to other devices of web communication, such as smartphones and laptops. A typical difference between the desktop computer and the other devices is that a desktop computer has a separate keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Hodges, Horner, et al.  <u>Harbrace Handbook for Canadians<\/u>, 6th ed.  Scarborough:  Nelson Education, Ltd, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor offers clarification about what a definition does. Often, in an English essay, the writer might need to define a term. From a working point of view, what does a definition do? According to Harbrace1, a definition gives similar &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-how-to-define-a-term\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English:  how to define a term<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1845,1846],"class_list":["post-17567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-definition","tag-how-to-define-a-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17567"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17580,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567\/revisions\/17580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}