Exam 10: Defining

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Examine Parker's introduction and conclusion. What is similar about them? How do they provide a good frame for the rest of the essay?

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. Cool is defined by The American Heritage Dictionary as "not excited; calm and controlled" and by A Dictionary of Catch Phrases as "unafraid, unflustered." A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English describes cool as a "hippy expression for confidence or selfassuredness." The Dictionary of American Slang characterizes cool as being "in complete control of one's emotions; hip but having a quiet, objective, aloof attitude; indifferent to those things considered nonessential to one's individual beliefs, likes, and desires." -Richard Majors and Janet Mancini Billson -List two examples the authors use to develop the definition.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -Who is the manufacturer of this robot?

Definitions can be ________________, factual, or they can be __________, combined with personal opinion.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -You don't have to drop $10k on lidar to get your robot to see its world.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -In these early days of personal robotics, it's important for manufacturers to nonverbally telegraph what their machines are capable of-for safety, in some cases, but mostly to avoid disappointing the user.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -She rarely goes to the health clinic because __________________________________.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What is the cost of asking for help?

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. Cool is defined by The American Heritage Dictionary as "not excited; calm and controlled" and by A Dictionary of Catch Phrases as "unafraid, unflustered." A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English describes cool as a "hippy expression for confidence or selfassuredness." The Dictionary of American Slang characterizes cool as being "in complete control of one's emotions; hip but having a quiet, objective, aloof attitude; indifferent to those things considered nonessential to one's individual beliefs, likes, and desires." -Richard Majors and Janet Mancini Billson -Do Majors and Billson rely on a synonym, a category, or a negation to start off the paragraph?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -First of all, Kuri has to be able to _____________________ the house without acting like an idiot. To avoid obstacles, it maps the world with __________________, just like a self-driving car.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -She quit her job because ___________________ costs twenty dollars a week for three children.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Parker uses the second-person personal pronoun you and the first-person personal pronoun I throughout her essay. In some cases, using these pronouns can weaken an essay's effectiveness. Does their use weaken Parker's essay? Explain your answer.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -As a reader, do you find yourself wanting to look up Kuri to see what it looks like? Do you find yourself wanting to experiment with it yourself? What writing strategies make the robot enticing to readers?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -At the end of the essay, Jo Goodwin Parker says that the "poor are always silent." Why do you think this is true?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Unlike their wild ancestors, they don't gnaw on us (usually).

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -They told me at the hospital when the last baby came that I had chronic anemia caused from poor diet.

Behind Ford's sudden leap upmarket lies a striking demographic shift. Since the 1970s, most of the income growth in the United States has gone to those who were already making the most. According to the Commerce Department, more than 8 million households have annual incomes over $100,000, and about half that number are estimated to have $1 million or more in assets. America can now lay claim to what conservative critic David Frum has aptly called "history's first mass upper class." -James Lardner -List two examples the author uses to develop the definition.

The possible ways to define your term are by

Why do definitions vary in length?

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. Cool is defined by The American Heritage Dictionary as "not excited; calm and controlled" and by A Dictionary of Catch Phrases as "unafraid, unflustered." A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English describes cool as a "hippy expression for confidence or selfassuredness." The Dictionary of American Slang characterizes cool as being "in complete control of one's emotions; hip but having a quiet, objective, aloof attitude; indifferent to those things considered nonessential to one's individual beliefs, likes, and desires." -Richard Majors and Janet Mancini Billson -What is this paragraph defining?