What is a Didacticism and how do I use it?

I don’t know what “a didacticism” is but I can tell you that something that is didactic is something that teaches a lesson. Think Aesop’s Fables as an example.

And for further instruction you can take a trip to Wikipedia: Didacticism

How odd that your teacher would give you an assignment without explaining anything at all about what it means.

@Jeruba I bet someone missed a class or two. ;)
@ MetroGnome217 that’s why it’s important to attend every class and pay attention when you’re there. Janbb and mrentropy gave you the answers though, so your good to go now. Good luck with your book.

@PattyAtHome I didn’t give an answer, I merely pointed to the first thing I got when I put “didacticism” in Google.

@Jeruba When I had kids, they would swear up and down that the teacher never told them whatever it was they were saying they needed me to do their homework for. I would flip a page, maybe two, back in their book and there would be the entire explanation of how to do their homework.

@mrentropy well pointing him to that page was your answer. I looked at the page and it explained exactly what didacticism is.

I’m on some other forums and half the time my answer to peoples questions is either “try typing it in google” or “i typed it in google and here’s the url you want, maybe try it yourself next time” LOL

The internet is the greatest research tool ever invented, and yet instead of using it to find an answer, a lot of people just use it to find larger forums to ask if anyone else can find the answer for them.

For example, one guy asked a question recently, and then 24 hours later no one had posted a reply so he made an angry post calling everyone in the forum dumbasses. First I left a reply, telling him that “not everyone stays logged constantly just waiting to answer his questions,” and then added, “they probably wouldn’t be inclined to answer anyway after reading his last post.” Then just out of curiosity I typed his exact question (word for word) into google. The top results were extremely relevant and I had the answer almost instantly. So I left a reply stating the search term I used and the results, then added that “if someone who waits 24 hours for an answer that could be found in less than 24 seconds, maybe that person shouldn’t be calling anyone dumbasses.”

That isn’t the case with @MetroGnome217 of course, I just thought it was a funny anecdote to share with you. :)