Concepts

Please use this page and the discussion pages to upload your work dealing with defining and applying our many concepts. Discussion Points: 1. why do people bother with defining key concepts they use? 2. why are general dictionary definitions a good place to start but might be inadequate for a scholarly discussion?

Suggestions for defining important concepts: 1. try to identify it: is it an idea, event, person? 2. what is it closely related to (and maybe sometimes confused with)? 3. does it have an opposite? (something that is mutually exclusive: hot and cold etc.) 4. what is its "job description"? that is, what is/are some of its functions? 5. are there multiple definitions? which fit our purposes? how do you know? which do not? how do you know?

Concept List from //**Why We Fight**// and beyond TeamWork, Information Literacy, Careful Reading & Clear Writing
 * preemptive || preemption || preempted || preemptively ||
 * 1) Look up you own words or take from the list(or a combination)
 * 2) Use either dictionary.com or Webster’s
 * 3) Copy and paste all the info for that word into a document
 * 4) Copy and paste the entire URL
 * 5) Insert today’s date

If you get the above result, why do you think there’s no match?
 * Concept || link || Retrieval date ||
 * American Exceptionalism || You are seeing reference results for American exceptionalism because there's not a match on Dictionary.com || 10/12/2011 ||