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Techniques On How To Give Expanded or Extended Definition

A technical definition precisely explains the nature and meaning of technical terms or terminology. An operational definition focuses more on how a term is applied by describing processes and characteristics. Researchers use operational definitions to specifically describe what they mean when using terms. Guidelines for defining terms include only defining important words, acknowledging source for dictionary definitions, keeping definitions short and clear, and including uncommon acronyms. Expanded definitions provide components of both informal and formal definitions through techniques like listing parts, using etymology, examples, negation, senses, context, ramifications, and history. Formal definitions state the term, class, and distinguishing features while informal definitions use known concepts to explain unknown terms.

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Techniques On How To Give Expanded or Extended Definition

A technical definition precisely explains the nature and meaning of technical terms or terminology. An operational definition focuses more on how a term is applied by describing processes and characteristics. Researchers use operational definitions to specifically describe what they mean when using terms. Guidelines for defining terms include only defining important words, acknowledging source for dictionary definitions, keeping definitions short and clear, and including uncommon acronyms. Expanded definitions provide components of both informal and formal definitions through techniques like listing parts, using etymology, examples, negation, senses, context, ramifications, and history. Formal definitions state the term, class, and distinguishing features while informal definitions use known concepts to explain unknown terms.

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TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL DEFINITION

What is a TECHNICAL DEFINITION?


 It states or describes exactly the nature, scope, or meaning of something
 It mostly refers to the aspect of explaining or describing any technical terms or
terminology.
 It could be used in expanding the vocabulary since most of these terms are
explained in the exact manner. Examples include the terms and definitions of
the words found in dictionary.

What is an OPERATIONAL DEFINITION?


 if technical definition mostly refers to the aspect of explaining or describing any
technical terms or terminology, OPERATIONAL DEFINITION on the other hand,
is more on the application of the word. For example, these may include the
various attempts to define or explain a certain process and its properties
including but not limited to the characteristics of the event itself.
NAME CLASS DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC
 an operational definition allows the researchers to describe in a specific way
what they mean when they use a certain term

GUIDELINES IN DEFINING TERMS:


1. Only terms, words, or phrase that have special or unique meanings in the study are
defined.
2. What to define?
 Important word in the title (such as variable)
 Technical terms used in the research paper
 Words for treatments and measurement (data analysis terms, etc.)
3. Define terms technically, operationally, or both
4. If the terms are from dictionaries, books, encyclopedia, other publications, and even
websites (technical definition), acknowledge the source.
5. If there are uncommon acronyms, include them; spell them out and give meaning
6. Definitions should be short, clear and unambiguous.
Note: Independent Variable (cause variable), dependent Variable (effect variable) (response-
variable) (experimental variable) (predicted variable) (measured variable)

Techniques on How to Give Expanded or Extended Definition

Expanded or extended definitions generally have components of both informal and formal
definitions. The meaning of an idea or word is presented in a longer, paragraph format. As
the name suggests, the author uses a number of other techniques to define a word, concept,
or phrase.

1. Listing and describing the parts: identifying smaller, more familiar pieces of an idea to
point to the definition of the bigger concept.
Note: deductive and inductive, concepts
: Deductive reasoning (also called deduction) involves starting from a set of general
premises and then drawing a specific conclusion that contains no more information than the
premises themselves. Deductive reasoning is sometimes called deduction. Inductive is used to
describe reasoning that involves using specific observations, such as observed patterns, to make
a general conclusion. This method is sometimes called induction. Induction starts with a set
of premises, based mainly on experience or experimental evidence. It uses those premises to
generalize a conclusion.
2. Etymology: sharing a word's origin.
: roots of the word or historical roots of the word
3. Examples or anecdotes: telling a story or example that illustrates the term.
: provides examples, situations and experiences
4. Negation: defining a term by explaining what the concept is not.
5. Evoking the senses: using a word that creates a picture in the reader's mind so that the
reader might relate through memory of sound, sight, touch, hearing, or smell.
: uses imagery, mental picture, trigger our senses
6. Environment or sector: pointing out how and where something is used.
7. Ramifications: showing how the term or concept affects people or objects.
: something affects something
8. Historical references: showing how a word has been defined throughout history.

COMPARE AND CONTRACT FORMAL AND INFORMAL DEFINITION

Formal definition is composed of term being defined, the class object to which the term
belongs, and distinguishing characteristics that distinguish it from all other form from its class.
Informal definition uses known words and examples to explain an unknown term, includes
synonyms, antonyms, introduce by or, in other words, like, analogy, and illustrations.

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