Monograph vs Commentary - What's the difference?
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A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.
To write a monograph on (a subject).
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A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.
An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.
As nouns the difference between monograph and commentary
is that monograph is a scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person while commentary is a series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.As a verb monograph
is to write a monograph on (a subject).monograph
English
(wikipedia monograph)Noun
(en noun)- I had never given much thought to the role of darkness in ordinary human affairs until I read a monograph prepared by John Staudenmaier, a historian of technology and a Jesuit priest, for a recent conference at MIT.'' Cullen Murphy, "Hello Darkness", ''The Atlantic Monthly , March 1996, Volume 277, No. 3,
pp. 22-24.
Verb
(en verb)citation
Anagrams
* *commentary
Noun
(commentaries)- This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary . -(Henry Hallam).