Definitions are very important when trying to give the audience a better understanding of the writing. Especially if the writer includes something from a specific culture such as “Pioneer Days” if the writer was from Utah, someone from Georgia would not understand what that means. We use definitions everyday to explain and inform the audience. There are two types, formal and extended. Formal is simple, short, and straight to the point. Extended shows the nature of the word, what about the word is essential. A writer can include exemplification, compare and contrast, process, description of objective and subjective, or classification and division in their writings. I will not go over all of these because then I will be giving you a long essay. However, I will explain process because it is used as an example in the next paragraph. Process shows just how something is done in complex detail, and images can be used.
In the New York Times, there is an article called “What Parkinson’s Teaches Us about the Brain” by Gretchen Reynolds. In this article, she is providing an extended definition of the process of how bicycling can help Parkinson’s patients lose their tremors for awhile. The doctor being interviewed says that for this experiment, they cannot get the same results on the lab rats, which leads to more explanation and definition process from the author of the article as to why this is. The author uses many definitions to explain how bicycling controls the nervous system and why this form of exercise can help the Parkinson’s patients.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/what-parkinsons-teaches-us-about-the-brain/
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