In the past week, I am still continuing to learn, practice, and review my technical writing skills, especially in writing and revising the definitions of professional terms.<\/p>\n
First of all, I learned how to define a term in various ways so that readers without a relevant professional background can learn about a new domain. The term I chose, Nostalgia, was a concept I learned in another class, and I read several papers before writing my definition to make sure I understood it well. However, the process of writing a definition was more difficult than I expected. Because I should not only consider how to provide a simple but clear and profound definition for my audience, who know nothing about this word but also try to write definitions for it through various methods. Finally, I explained Nostalgia in terms of Etymology, History, Negation, and Visual.<\/p>\n
Secondly, through my partner’s definition of Closures, my knowledge of the computer science field was strengthened, because it was a knowledge That I hadn’t learned yet. As I read his definitions, I learned and absorbed many of the methods not used in my own definitions. For example, use a specific example to illustrate your terminology. I know it’s easy to think of, but I cared too much about explaining it in as many ways as possible, rather than explaining it clearly. My partner did a very good job of this, using a very clear and concise example to explain the rather complex terminology, which is very useful for enhancing understanding.<\/p>\n
Finally, through peer review between me and my partner, we found out that we haven’t noticed some details in our writing and thus modified our definitions respectively. Through this process, I found that we should try to use simple and detailed definitions when explaining a relatively complex term to someone without a professional background. So, for example, when I am trying to explain the term Nostalgia, I should use more of a concept of psychology, because psychology is a discipline that relates to what’s in everyone’s mind. Thus more people can relate to my definition when I explain it this way. And when I used Visual, I didn’t pay attention to explaining the text that appeared on the graph, which might have confused my readers a little bit.<\/p>\n
Here is my edited definition:<\/p>\n
Assignment 1: 3 (Revised Definition) \u2013 Three Definitions<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n