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The resulting assessment will demonstrate that the student has identified a word that, upon inspection, needs a better or more useful definition or category. The student will provide evidence to support the new definition or category, and he or she will write an argument that, through sound argument and formal and mechanical competence, persuades an audience to think more critically about the word.  \nTask Analysis: Understanding and Writing Arguments of Definition  \n1. Understand why a definition argument is made  \na. Accepted definitions are often inadequate and based on uncritical acceptance of formal dictionary definitions or operational definitions.  \nb. Society can outgrow a definition  \ni. Definitions can be harmful to people (in the case of stereotypes or racial slurs that hurt people)  \nii. Definitions can have outlived their use (as in \"primetime\" in the age of Internet broadcasting on demand)  \niii. Definitions can mislead (as when \"intellectual property\" is given the same rights as real property; when corporations are given the status of \"individuals\" without being beholden to the assumption that individuals have ethical obligations.)  \n2. Understand how a definition argument is made: formal definition, operational definition, definition by example.  \na. Formal Definitions  \ni. The best definition of x is …  \n1. Example: Dictionary definition (a definition \"argument\"that is no longer arguable to most people)  \n2. Example: Parks hold a much more important role in the American mind than just as a place to have fun. Parks allow recreation, which builds community, they help us appreciate our country and landscape, and they help us mourn injustices ofthe past.  \nb. Operational Definitions  \ni. X must satisfy Y requirements in order to be considered useful, safe, effective, etc.;  \n1. Example: Laundry is not complete unless it is folded and put away  \n2. Example: The insurance industry does not consider water damage to houses caused by hurricane stormsurges as insurable under hurricane insurance policies; instead the homeowners need flood coverage.  \nii. X is in category Y or X is defined by a), b), and c) .  \n1. Example: cheerleading is a sport  \n2. Example: the legal corporate individual is a psychopath  \n3. Example: graffiti isn't always art; sometimes it's just plain vandalism.  \nc. Definition by Example  \ni. X is defined by examples A, B, C that we all accept as being part of that category. So is D also in that category?  \n1. Good when the category itself doesn't have a standard definition but is a \"know it when you see it\" type category.  \n3. Choose a topic  \na. Topic is a question about a definition of a term or its category  \nb. The question must be arguable  \nc. Avoid poor topics: topics that are too extensive or aren't arguable  \ni. questions that can be answered by looking at a dictionary or other reference make poor topics. No one is going to argue that an elephant is a pachyderm.  \nii. papers about the definition of love or friendship tend to be weak because people are used to thinking of their characteristics a matter of personal rather than public preference.  \niii. \"Abortion is murder\" is a definition argument, but you can't address the definition of life and the definition of murder in the page length you have available to you. Stay away from these clichéd topics. Stick with arguments that people are likely to disagree about or have never thought of but still can be persuaded by.  \niv. Avoid defining something only as \"good\" or \"bad.\" That is an evaluation argument and not necessarily a definition  \nargument. Whether the category is good or bad can be what","cbCaimsTp6cyG4zW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimsTp6cyG4zW","pdf",754885,13,"English","# Goal Statement for ENC1101: Week 6: Arguments of Definition\n## Task Analysis: Understanding and Writing Arguments of Definition\n## Choose a topic\n## Identify the ways the accepted definition is lacking\n## Identify modifications to make the definition more useful\n## Write the first draft of the essay\n## Revise according to revision procedures","[{\"question\":\"Why are definition arguments necessary in first-year writing?\",\"answer\":\"Accepted definitions may be inadequate, based on uncritical dictionary or operational meanings. 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