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Assertion
Support
Thesis
Example
Abstraction
Concrete Example
Generalization
Specific
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I feel sick today.
I have a migraineheadache and an
upset stomach.
Generalization
Specific example
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I had a miserableday at the free throwline.
I made only threebaskets out twentyfour attempted.
Generalization
Specific Example
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I had terrible luckfishing.
After three hours
from the boat andtwo hours at thepier,I caught onlyone tiny sunfish toosmall to eat.
Generalization
Specific Example
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Abstract= Leave Out Details
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Typical Paragraph StructureAssertion: The greater the speed, the
less control the driver has over the car.Support: For example,a man driving at
30 miles an hour needs only 73 feet tobring the car to a complete stop,but a
man driving at 60 miles an hour needs222 feet.
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Generalization Abstract
Specifics Concrete(1) TS
(2) E
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COMFTF-02The Example Thesis(Topic Sentence): East Texas has
experienced a great deal of precipitation in thelast 24 hours.
Marshall has suffered baseball sized hail. Longview has had over three feet of snow. Corsicana has had over 12 inches of rain,
causing the local creeks and rivers to overflow
their banks. Rusk has experienced driving sleet and ice,
resulting in a 30 car pile-up.
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High Abstraction words
-tion
-ment
-dom
-ness
-ity
Specific details have been left out.
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Generalization: Fred has acted in a dishonestmanner.
Example:He claims he gave $1000 to his
church when in truth he didnt give one cent. Example: He turned in a research paper
claiming it was his own work, when in truth he
had downloaded from an obscure site on theInternet.
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Etymology of Abstract
Two Latin word
Ab (Away from)Trahere (to pull or to carry)
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COMFTF-02The Example Abstraction Blue Blue eyes
Blue shirt
Blue ink Blue notebook
Blue jeans
Blue color crayon
Blue chalk Cant buy a bottle of blue Blue is an abstraction
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Thesis: Mary acts like a brat
*Specific Example1 :She always doesbad things.
*Specific Example 2 :She behaves like adelinquent.
* Specific Example 3:She is a pain in the
neck to her teachers.
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COMFTF-02The Example Thesis: Mary behaves like a brat. Specific Example 1:She squeezed Elmers
Glue in the cats nose.
Specific Example 2:She mowed the shagrugwith a power mower. Specific Example 3: She crumbled broken
glass in the sugar bowl.
Specific Example 4: She flushed the goldfishdown the toilet.
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Alfred Korzybski
1879-1950
StructuralDifferential
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Parabola
Everything outsideour nervous systems
Electrons,rays,wavelengths
WIGO
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Holes or circles
Characteristics
Not molecules oratoms
Terms put notions inour heads
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Circle has manyholes but not infinitelike the parabola.
Parabola and circletogether representnon-verbal world ofreality.
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COMFTF-02The Example Laundry tag
Figure represents firstverbal world of reality.
Specific label like Philor Doris
Here is Doris Smith
Doris Smith took two
wobbly steps
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Next level ofabstraction we callthe inference
Doris is a littletipsy.
Doris is inebriated.
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Next level ofabstraction is the
judgment.
Doris is a no-goodimmoral woman.
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S.I. Hayakawa
1906-1992
Abstraction Ladder
Levels of specificityin expository writing.
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Bessie the cow
Process level-whirling dance of
electrons. Variegated mass of
corpuscles
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COMFTF-02The Example Bessie on circle
level represents theimage we see with
our sensory organs. Sounds she makes. Shadows she
makes.
Specific shape wesee.
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Specific Label
Bessiedistinguishing
Bessie from othercows.
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The class termcow leaves outspecific
characteristics whichdistinguish Bessiecow1 from Rosieor Daisy cow or
Guernsey or Jersey.
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COMFTF-01The Example Next level of
abstraction is thetermlivestock,leavingout specificcharacteristics whichdistinguish cow fromgoats horses andchickens.
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The abstractionfarm asset leavesout specific
characteristics whichdifferentiate cowsfrom silos, manurespreaders, or
generating plants.
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The abstractionasset leaved outspecific
characteristicsdistinguishing cowsfrom stocks andbonds and oil wells.
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Transportation: Leaves out specific characteristicsdifferentiating Chevrolet Lumina from ships orplanes.
Land Transportation:Leaves out specificcharacteristics differentiating Chevrolet Lumina frombusses and trucks.
Automobile:Leaves out specific characteristics
differentiating Chevrolet Lumina from Ford Taurusand Cadillac.
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COMFTF-02The Example Chevrolet Lumina: leaves out specific
characteristics differentiating Gray ChevroletLumina from green or red Chevrolet Lumina.
Gray Chevrolet Lumina-Leaves out specificcharacteristics differentiating Gray ChevroletLumina with California tag GFS123 from Texastag LPN124.
Gray Chevrolet Lumina with California tagGFS123.
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COMFTF-02The Example Structure of Expository ParagraphMore General : Thesis (or topic sentence)
Example 1: Specific detail 1 Specific detail 2 Specific detail 3 Example 2: Specific detail 1 Specific detail 2
Specific detail 3
More specific
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COMFTF-06The Example Generalizations Judgments Assumptions
OpinionsMore inferences Inferences Descriptions Statistics Names
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Column A Column B
Bread Democracy
Pencil LoveSweater Hate
Land Generosity
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Abstract and Concrete
Not mutually exclusive
Only relative terms
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COMFTF-02The ExampleMore Abstract: Matter Etc.
Entity Matter
Organic Mass
Growth Organism Plant Homo
Sapiens
Flower Student
Rose MaleMost Concrete Tea Rose Johnny Smith
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More Abstract: Mineral Living thing
Metal Insect
Iron FlyMore Concrete Hammerhead
Horsefly on
windowpane
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COMFTF-02The ExampleMore Abstract: Tea Rose
A Dead Tea Rose
A Dead Tea Rose, U.S.A.
A Dead Tea Rose in a park USA
A Dead Tea Rose in a Tyler Park U.S. A. A Dead Tea Rose in a hothouse in a Tyler
Park,U.S.A A Dead Tea Rose in the CaldwellPark Hothouse, Tyler ,Texas
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Johnny Smith is a student.
Johnny Smith is a student, U.S.A.
Johnny Smith is a Texas student, U.S.A.
Johnny is college student, Tyler, Texas. Johnny Smith attends Texas
College,Tyler,Texas,U.S.A.
Johnny Smith is in Dr. Maass English 1 Class atTexas College,Tyler,Texas, U.S.A.