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  2. Level of detail (writing) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_detail_(writing)

    Level of detail in writing, sometimes known as level of abstraction, refers to three concepts: the precision in using the right words to form phrases, clauses and sentences; [1] the generality of statements; and the organisational strategy in which authors arrange ideas according to a common topic in the hierarchy of detail.

  3. Description - Wikipedia

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    As stated in Writing from A to Z, edited by Kirk Polking, it is more than the amassing of details; it is bringing something to life by carefully choosing and arranging words and phrases to produce the desired effect. [5]

  4. Syntax - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, syntax (/ ˈ s ɪ n t æ k s / SIN-taks) [1] [2] is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences.Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituency), [3] agreement, the nature of crosslinguistic variation, and the relationship between form and meaning ().

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  6. Paraphrase - Wikipedia

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    turning long sentences into multiple shorter ones (or vice versa) expressing abstract concepts more concretely. Paraphrasing with synonyms is considered by some to be an acceptable stage in teaching paraphrase, but it is necessary that it is ultimately combined with techniques for altering sentence structure to avoid the appearance of ...

  7. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .

  8. Information - Wikipedia

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    For example, in written text each symbol or letter conveys information relevant to the word it is part of, each word conveys information relevant to the phrase it is part of, each phrase conveys information relevant to the sentence it is part of, and so on until at the final step information is interpreted and becomes knowledge in a given domain.

  9. Wikipedia talk : Writing better articles/Define and describe

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    With the description, we have an article focused solely on the orientation: one thing. We can describe the sexual act at a more specific page title, such as homosexual sex. Martin 00:37, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC) If you want thorough understanding you will have to base your associations on words, hence the definitions are necessary.