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Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of modern technology. A person should learn to speak more than one language — Discuss. Furthermore, in this type of answer, you have to examine the topic in detail and include different perspectives held by various parties. Important to remember is that discussing does not involve only stating facts or describing something. Instead, it is an evaluation, considering different perspectives of the topic. The word explain means to make a concept or situation clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts while the word discuss means to talk or write about something in detail, taking into account different issues or ideas.
We explain something by clarifying what, why and how something happened while we discuss something by examining it in detail, taking into account different issues or ideas. She is currently reading for a Masters degree in English. This involves rather more than reciting facts or describing something. It is closer to evaluation , only it neither requires nor expects you to come down on one side of the issue.
You need to make use of background information surrounding that claim or topic. Example : A discussion of capital punishment would mention some of the history of the practice, describe how it is carried out, and describe and perhaps offer some evaluation of arguments for and against the practice. Distinguish : Closely related to compare , this involves describing two or more things actions, ideas, etc. Evaluate : An evaluation is similar in complexity to a discussion , the primary difference being that evaluations will make use of criteria for deciding whether one thing is better or worse than another, whether some practice is morally permissible, and so on.
Example : An evaluation of capital punishment would involve a discussion of the practice, and then an assessment of whether it is effective in deterring would be criminals, in meting out justice, in making wise use of public resources , or whether it is moral, or whether it is constitutional, or some combination of these and others.
Identify : Identification typically involves little more than the ability to pick-out some X from a line-up of individuals; in other words, it involves recognition skills. Use : You might be asked, for instance, to properly use some newly-learned concept in a sentence, or use an inference pattern in a new argument. In this course, you will be asked to make use of completed truth-tables for determining validity, and to make use of the method of counter-example to determine invalidity.
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