Functional Teaching: Using Obsolescence to Teach Definition

Robert E. Smith

doi:10.2190/88fh-kjtu-mtuf-587m

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Apr 1991

Functional Teaching: Using Obsolescence to Teach Definition

Robert E. Smith University of South Carolina

Abstract

The student new to technical writing frequently has difficulty, on two counts, with technical definitions: grasping their essentiality and learning how to create them; matters are not made easier by some of the ways in which we approach the subject. Exercises centered around a term that is lapsing into obsolescence offer some productive solutions to this common instructional problem, particularly so if the term is even indirectly related to the student's field.

Journal: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published: 1991-04-01
DOI: 10.2190/88fh-kjtu-mtuf-587m
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