Constructing proximity: Relating to readers in popular and professional science

Metadiscourse Use in Popular and Professional Science: The Case of Hedges and Boosters

The present article shows that all scientific texts included in journals, magazines, and newspapers are vulnerable to the penetration of hedges and boosters.  However, it was found that scientific texts in the three corpora tended to open up the possibilities of alternative voices rather than narrowing them down. The relatively higher frequency of occurrence of hedges in comparison with booster...

"popular" Science.

Dietary supplement safety information in magazines popular among older readers.

Dietary supplements are extensively used in the United States, especially by people age 50 and over. Surveys have shown that magazines and other news media are an important source of information about nutrition and dietary supplements for the American public. It is uncertain, however, whether magazines provide their readers with adequate information about the safety aspects of supplement use. T...

Constructing and Validating the Teachers’ Professional Competence Evaluation Instrument

The current research was aimed mainly at constructing and validating the teachers’ professional competence evaluation instrument through descriptive correlational research method. The statistical population consisted of all primary school teachers employed by the city of Kerman’s board of education in the year 2015 – 2016. Participants of the study included 300 teachers selected via cluster sam...

Citations in Popular and Interpretive Science Writing.

Why is it that so much otherwise excellent “popularized” science writing lacks an essential ingredient, a lack that minimizes its lasting value? I have found that scientific publications can be qualitatively evaluated into those which include bibliographic citation data and those which do not. Scientists frequently are stimulated to order publications cited in articles. Is the exclusion of cita...