For Project 2, you need to include a glossary of the key terms that relate to the topic that you have chosen. You probably know a great deal about definitions, since most of you have been looking up words in the dictionary since you were very young. Today, we’re going to review strategies for writing definitions, look at some example glossaries, and then end with the in-class writing.

• We will go over the kinds of definitions, focusing on sentence and paragraph definitions and talking about glossary format.
• We will look at several example glossaries and talk about what they do well and how they might be improved:
  • Distillation Glossary 1
  • Distillation Glossary 2
  • Engineering Glossary
  • Food Allergy Glossary
  • Nitrocellulose Glossary
  • Soccer Glossary
• We’ll end with the in-class writing. Go to “Tests & Quizzes” in Scholar and complete today’s assignment, “02/24 Project 2 Topic.” As usual, you have until 5 PM tomorrow (2/25) to turn in your topic.

Homework

We will also talk about descriptions (pp. 366–374), so be sure you have read that section of the text.