L10 EAPP Elucidating Concepts PDF

Ways in elucidating a Concept Your best quote that reflects your approach… “It’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” - Neil Armstrong   1. Identify the ways how to elucidate a concept.  2. determine the techniques used in de...

Ways in elucidating a Concept Your best quote that reflects your approach… “It’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” - Neil Armstrong   1. Identify the ways how to elucidate a concept.  2. determine the techniques used in developing the Objectives concept of a particular essay;  3. value understanding of the topic by actively participating in the activity.   1. Divide the class into two groups.  2. Identify a problem in your community or school which you are now currently experiencing. Activity  3. Group 1- Write down one paragraph description of the problem and explain it. Group 2- Think of a quote or a verse that will describe your problem and expound it.   1. What is the problem all about? Analysis  2. How did you describe it?  3. How is the paragraph being developed?  4. Why is it important to understand a concept?  Concept paper defines an idea or a concept and explains its essence Abstraction in order to clarify the “whatness” of that idea or concept. It answers the questions: what is it and about it? A concept paper starts with a definition, either formal or informal, of the term or the concept and proceeds with an expanded definition and analytic description of the aspects of the concept.   1. to clarify the meaning of words, or to correct misinterpretations, or misuse of a term.  2. To stipulate the meaning of a Purposes term by limiting, extending, or redirecting the sense in which a term is usually understood; to use a term, borrowed from another field of knowledge, in a special way.  1. Definition Three ways of 2. Explication elucidating a concept: 3. Clarification   - is a logical technique by which the meaning of a term is revealed. The definition is important 1.Definiti because it clarifies the on meaning of a word or a concept and it also limits the scope of that particular word or concept. Definition A. Informal can be presented B. Formal in three ways: C. Extended  - uses known words or examples to explain an unknown term. This Inform definition may be synonyms or al antonyms introduced by or, in other words, etc.  - the most common technique in defining in which you are given the term to be defined and you define Forma the term by giving the l class or the term belongs or the genus and the characteristic that distinguish the term from other terms known as the differentia.  - is needed to define abstract concepts. It allows you to broaden your Extend definition by using analogy, metaphor, ed comparison and contrast, descriptions, analysis, functions, etymology and semantic origin.   - explain a story, a literary work, or research to further expound on the meaning of a 2. text. Explicatio  - a literary technique in n criticism and research, used for a close analysis of an excerpt or text taken from a lengthy piece of work.   - the points are organized from a general abstract idea to specific and concrete 3. examples. It entails the Clarificatio analysis of the concept by n looking at the examples and specifying of some of its characteristics to arrive at one working definition.  Manner of elucidating the Application Concept Sentence concept (definition/clarification/explicatio  Complete the n) table by filling in 1. The automatic the missing Automatic center punch is a Definition Center device used to information. Punch make a pinpoint indentation in a hard material such as metal or plastic without the use of a hammer.  Justice is a broad 2. concept which encompasses a wide set of ideas, most of which also branch out into smaller notions. For instance, it can refer to the sentencing of a criminal based on due process. When an individual gets what he deserves, even outside the hands of the law, it is also considered justice in some context. This may come in the form of vigilante justice, in which a person dissatisfied with the system doles out  The speaker in the 3. poem, The Road Not Taken uses the word “sigh” to signify possible future regret for the decision that he made when faced with two paths. While the poem focuses on two physical paths- roads diverging in a “yellow wood”, the speaker is alluding to metaphorical paths– two  From the moment in 1879 4. that cave paintings were discovered at Altamira, scholars have wondered why the hunter-artists of the Old Stone Age decided to cover the walls of dark caverns with animal images. Various answers have been given, including that they were mere decoration, but this theory cannot explain the narrow range of subjects of the inaccessibility of many of the paintings. In fact, the remoteness and difficulty of access of many of the cave paintings and the fact they appear to have been used for centuries are precisely what have led many scholars to suggest  From the moment in 1879 5. that cave paintings were discovered at Altamira, scholars have wondered why the hunter-artists of the Old Stone Age decided to cover the walls of dark caverns with animal images. Various answers have been given, including that they were mere decoration, but this theory cannot explain the narrow range of subjects of the inaccessibility of many of the paintings. In fact, the remoteness and difficulty of access of many of the cave paintings and the fact they appear to have been used for centuries are precisely what have led many scholars to suggest   Group activity.  The class will be divided into three groups. The teacher will provide a Assessment puzzle (a passage) and let the group fix or arrange the puzzle and determine the ways being used in the passage to elucidate a concept.  Choose one concept that is related to your track and write a mini- Assignment concept paper with 300 words. Use the techniques in elucidating a concept.  Thank you End for listening. 