specific words

Examples of specific words in the following topics:

• Precision

  • General words and specific words are not opposites.
  • General words cover a broader spectrum with a single word than specific words.
  • Specific words are a subset of general words.
  • You can increase the clarity of your writing by choosing specific words over general words.
  • Here's an example of general and specific words in a sentence:

• Tailor Abstraction to Your Audience

  • Abstraction is the process of perceiving similarities from our direct, specific observations in the universe, organizing the similarities, and then assigning a word label for the more general concept.
  • The ability to simplify experiences with a word makes it easier to communicate, but it also makes us lose the connection to the specific meaning that we want to convey through the abstract wording.
  • Almost anything can be described either in relatively abstract, general words or in relatively concrete, specific ones.
  • You can increase the clarity, and therefore the usability, of your speaking by using concrete, specific words rather than abstract, general ones.
  • Your objective when choosing words is not to avoid abstract general words altogether, but rather to avoid using them when your audience needs more specific, concrete connections to what you are saying.

• Keeping the Audience in Mind

  • If you address the document's specific target audience in terms they understand, your document will have a better chance of achieving its goal.
  • At the same time, keep in mind that your word choices affect the attitudes your readers have toward you and your subject matter.
  • You also need to choose words that will increase your communication's persuasiveness.
  • Word choice could make a difference in how your voice is heard and your writing is perceived.
  • A formal tone and more official word selection leads to a very different type of piece than an informal tone and simpler word selection.

• Choosing Clear Words and Phrasing

  • Choose clear words and phrasing in your speech by fully understanding your topic through delimiting the question and defining key terms.
  • You know that you have to write a speech, and you may or may not have been given a specific topic about which to write.
  • Looking at your speech from a distance allows you to dissect exactly how you can begin to tackle the specific wording of your speech.
  • You want to make sure that your speech is easy to understand and follow, so it's imperative to choose clear words and phrasing.
  • When you delimited your question, were there any key words used in that question?

• Observation Survey

  • On all other words, his response included a word that started like the word on the task.
  • The observer reads a specially prepared book and asks the child questions that encompass early reading strategies such as directionality, one-to-one matching, visual scanning behaviors, letter and word knowledge, and specific concepts about punctuation.
  • Furthermore, he demonstrated very little visual scanning or specific concepts about punctuation.
  • This demonstrates that Eric is beginning to learn some things about some specific words.
  • Jones noted that he did not say one word for every word printed on the page.

• The Nature of Effective Communication

  • Effective communication only happens when the words and symbols used create a common level of understanding for both parties.
  • Ambiguous words/phrases that sound the same but have different meanings.
  • Individual linguistic ability is important to consider: will intended targets understand industry-specific jargon, complex words, or colloquialisms?
  • Using words that recipients can't understand is inappropriate and counter-productive, resulting in confusion and alienation.
  • Carefully considering word choice, mode of message, and the intended audience can eliminate many barriers to communication.

• Vygotsky's Theories

  • If you would like to see a transcript of the audio, click here (http://www.coe.uga.edu/epltt/impaticas/Vygotsky_script.doc) to download script as a word document.
  • Unlike Piaget's notion that children's development must necessarily precede their learning, Vygotsky argued, "learning is a necessary and universal aspect of the process of developing culturally organized, specifically human psychological function" (1978, p. 90).
  • In other words, social learning tends to precede development.
  • If you would like to see a transcript of the audio, click here http://www.coe.uga.edu/epltt/impaticas/Vygotsky_script.doc to download script as a word document.

• The Act of Defining: Conceptual Engineering

  • Variation four, $D \rightarrow X + Y$ , refers to the act of defining a word in a certain way.
  • Imagine that you, as a writer or speaker, have worked out a specific definition for which, it appears, there is presently no word in your language which has exactly this meaning.
  • One option is to invent a new word to point to the definition, or get someone else to do so.
  • One of my students, Doug Chamberlin, kindly invented a new word to point to my definition: coopetition.
  • The other option is to borrow an already existing word whose general meaning is close to your new definition, and announce that when you use this word, this is what you mean.

• Specific Comparisons (Correlated Observations)

  • Some of the words were aggressive words such as injure or shatter.
  • These two types of words were preceded by words that were either the names of weapons, such as shotgun or grenade, or non-weapon words, such as rabbit or fish.
  • In other words, is
  • A more interesting question is whether the priming effect (the difference between words preceded by a non-weapon word and words preceded by a weapon word) is different for aggressive words than it is for non-aggressive words.
  • That is, do weapon words prime aggressive words more than they prime non-aggressive words?

• Using Pointing Words

  • The phrase "those intricacies of form" lets the reader know that the writer is referring to the same specific instances of metrical variation that were discussed earlier in the poem.
  • Pointing words are words, such as "this," "these," or "those," which are used to help orient your reader and establish continuity within your writing.
  • The phrase "those intricacies of form" lets the reader know that the writer is referring to the same specific instances of metrical variation that were discussed earlier in the poem.
  • In the title, the word "these" acts as a pointing word that points back to the noun, "wild animals," contained in the first sentence.
  • Pointing words are used to produce continuity in your writing.