TFY-CHAPTER 2 Summary

1.An accurate use of words improves our thinking.
2.Writing helps us learn more about words and how to use them.
3.Clears thinking depends on a clear understanding of the words we use.
4.We need to understand what dictionaries can and cannot offer us;we need to use them skillfuly and frequently.
5.The thesaurus helps us when we are writing and translating noverbal experience and ideas into words ;the dictionary helps us when we are reading and interpreting the words of ofthers.
6.Defintions set boundaries for word ideas and show us their specfic and general characteristics and how they are relateed to or distinguished from one another.
7.Dictionary definition show us the agreements that society has made about a word's meaning.
8.The test our understanding of aword is our ability to define it.
9.A study of a word's etymology can help us trace a word back to its earliest root idea and can give us an image that convey a more concretesense of the word's logic.
10.The connotation of a word are its associative meanings, whic can be positive,negative,or thoughts.
11.The first stage of critical eading is objective receptivity to the material;this means having the technical ability as well as the willingness to accurately reproduce its content without alterations or distortions .

Instruction for assignment
Step1:suppose you choose as your topic defining adult
Step2:try clustering with the word adult
Step3:take information you discoverd form your cluster and begin to write a good paragraph about the various meaning and boundaries of the word adult.