Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice of conveying or of aiming to convey instruction; the tendency to be didactic in matter or style.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The didactic method or system.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable An
artistic philosophy thatemphasises instructional andinformative qualities over mereentertainment . - noun countable A work, statement, etc. of this kind.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun communication that is suitable for or intended to be instructive
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Examples
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We are reticent for the same reason the You of the story is; didacticism is something to be suspicious of.
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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We are reticent for the same reason the You of the story is; didacticism is something to be suspicious of.
Tim Pratt's "The Frozen One" Hal Duncan 2008
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And the problem I do have with overt didacticism is less with its frequent technical clumsiness, where swatches of sermons or lessons are just slapped into the story, then it is with the way it reminds readers Who Is In Charge.
Archive 2007-05-01 Roger Sutton 2007
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I meant hunted not haunted looks. but H, where I disagree with you about octavian nothing and with roger about all writers engaging in a subtle form of didacticism is that in allegory as well as in didactic books, the author starts out knowing what he wants to say and he tells or teaches it to the reader.
"Crap, here comes Teacher!" Roger Sutton 2007
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And the problem I do have with overt didacticism is less with its frequent technical clumsiness, where swatches of sermons or lessons are just slapped into the story, then it is with the way it reminds readers Who Is In Charge.
"Crap, here comes Teacher!" Roger Sutton 2007
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“The setting here is a school, all the candidates for president are canines, and the didacticism is as thick as the paint in the illustrations ….”
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The current dominant mode of children's-book evaluation at least nominally disdains "didacticism," by which it means preachiness or sermonizing.
I agree with everybody Roger Sutton 2009
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The current dominant mode of children's-book evaluation at least nominally disdains "didacticism," by which it means preachiness or sermonizing.
Archive 2009-09-01 Roger Sutton 2009
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For serious kid-lit theoreticians and other meta-kid-lit enthusiasts, Read Roger sums up some of the issues behind a debate about race and "didacticism" while talking about the Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King Awards along the way.
End-o'-the-Week Kid-Lit Roundup Omnivoracious 2009
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For serious kid-lit theoreticians and other meta-kid-lit enthusiasts, Read Roger sums up some of the issues behind a debate about race and "didacticism" while talking about the Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King Awards along the way.
Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009
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