Public Linguist: There Must be 50 Ways a Definition Can Go Wrong

Monday, July 20, 2015

There Must be 50 Ways a Definition Can Go Wrong

Here are 5 of them:

1.Circular Definition

2.Definition uses overly complex medical/science words/concepts

3.Definition uses overly complex sentence structure

4.Recursive Definition

5. Non-definition Definition

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What I post here is intended only as a forum to discuss ideas. Please be aware that referred to research or sources evolve over time so the documents referred to on this blog may be superseded by new information.

Oh, and BTW I use the following broad definition of Health Literacy:“A health literate person is able to use health concepts and information generatively—applying information to novel situations. This is critical to our efforts to prepare the public to react to complex public health emergencies.”(From invited paper presented by me - Surgeon General’s Report on Health Literacy, September 7 2006, Bethesda Maryland http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/healthliteracy/toc.html)

Monday, July 20, 2015

There Must be 50 Ways a Definition Can Go Wrong

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