This essay will explore the meaning of abstract and technical language, discuss the importance for students to be able to express meanings in abstract and technical ways and propose approaches to increase teachers' effectiveness in helping students use abstract language in their academic writing. The Meaning of Abstract and Technical Language According to a definition from the City University of New York, "abstract language refers to things that are intangible, that is, which are perceived not through the senses but by the mind, such as truth, God, education, vice, transportation, poetr...

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Science behind Medicine has led to awareness and preventive education among the public. ... As pointed out by Willard Gaylin in his essay, Harvesting the Dead, the technology we have developed has essentially changed the definition of death. ... Issues such as euthanasia and abortion have always been topics of debate in the field of Medicine. ...

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My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. ... The skeptic inside of me says that you can be an individual, but highly doubtful without education on the idea of the self. ... At the beginning Orestes does not know who he is but after the thought process and education of identity by his tutor he realizes who he is and what he has to do to obtain his identity. ...

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