“Defining terms is an important part of academic writing” (Barrios 548). After reading Yoshino 538-547, locate a sentence or sentences where Yoshino defines his key terms: covering, assimilation, and authenticity. Quote from Yoshino, including the page number, and then analyze his strategy for defining each terms. For example, in Language Matters at the end of the Yoshino reading, the editor of Emergingsuggests that Yoshino might use a dictionary definition, might cite an authority, or might offer an example (Barrios 548). If not one of these, what other strategy does he use in his definition?
What Yashino says about assimilation is that “I recognize the value of assimilation, which is often necessary to fluid social interactions, to peaceful coexistence, and even dialogue through which difference is valued.” ( Yashino 540) What he is explaining is that people need to see the dark side of assimilation, so we can know what is going in the world today.
what Yashino expresss about covering is he says that it is race, sex, religion, etc.. “Everyone covers. To cover is to tone down a disfavored identity to fit into the mainstream. In our diverse society, all of us are outside the mainstream in some way… every reader of this book has covered, whether consciously or not, and sometimes at significant personal cost.”
