Topics for Essay #2: The Definition Essay

Carefully examine topics 1,2,5,7, and 9 on pages 522-523 of Patterns in Writing, 12th ed.  Choose one as a springboard that leads you to a topic for your definition essay. 

 Keys to this essay:

• LIMITING the topic
• Providing support (in the way of examples, description, background, explanation of what it is NOT--whatever works) that is concrete NOT abstract.