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Definition Essay
Purpose
• To expand or explain the meaning of a word or term to provide clarity meaning of the word or term to the audience.
WAY to Define
• Logical placing the term into logical category and clarifying to particular selected meaning or closely meaning to the dictionary
Example: Trust : an emotion that involves a connection between at least tow human being
• Stipulate what is commonly meant by the term, develop by examples
Example: Cool : mean something exciting and interesting
• Historical what the term has meant over the time.
Example: Cool : In 1900 means closely to the weather and then it started changing to something different according to the decade.
• Connotative The meaning of the term different social or cultural context.Example: Cool : refer to the situation you are in, or talking about at the time. When you outside and wearing a big jacket it show about the feeling you are in. According to different group or different places and condition.
Outline• Introduction
Thesis: what is the term, how will it be defined direction.
• BodyOne paragraph for each change in definition or example of the term in use.
• ConclusionWhy is important to know the term’s meaning.
HOW START TO YOUR BODY
• Classify : divide subject into type, describe each type.
• Compare: show how subject is like/unlike something.
• Illustrate : give example or narrate incident. • Tell cause: analyze why something happened.• Show effect: describe the consequence
Juvenile Delinquent
• Standard Definition: Underage person convicted of crime or antisocial behavior
• Pattern : Classify• Thesis : To understand juvenile delinquency, it’s
necessary to know the major types of delinquents.• Main points : The first type is referring to
someone who is the bully in school. : The second type is someone who writes graffiti on the wall
: The third type is someone who is join the gang.
Habeas Corpus
• Standard Definition: legal right to go before judge after arrested or imprisoned
• Pattern : Illustrate with examples• Thesis : The concept of habeas corpus is no
longer guaranteed in American today• Main points : Muslim American after 9/11
: Guantanamo prisoners: Bradley Manning
• Standard Definition: legal process of resolving the dispute
• Pattern : Classify, Narrate, Result• Thesis : Arbitration takes away
legal rights of Americans, and criminal to go free• Main points : Classify “force arbitration”
: Narrate: story of Jamie Leigh Jones, brutally rapped by Halliburton coworker in Iraq
: Result : Rapist went free
Adjudication
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