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Signposting and Cohesion: Creating a Reader-Friendly Text

Cultures differ on their expectations for the roles writers and readers take in relation to a text. According to John Hinds (1987), some cultures (like the US) favor “writer-responsible” writing, in which the writer has the primary responsibility for making sure that ideas are clearly communicated to the reader, while other cultures (like Japan) favor “reader-responsible” writing, in which the ...

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In the last decade many advances have been made in understanding how HIV-1 interacts with macrophages (MØ) and dendritic cells (DC). Based on the notion that HIV-2 is a more attenuate model of infection, we proposed to explore the mechanisms of HIV-2 interaction with MØ and DCs. With this aim, we studied the efficiency of cis-infection of MØ and DCs. A cohort of 7 HIV-1 and 7 HIV-2 primary isol...

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SWAN - Scientific Writing AssistaNt. A Tool for Helping Scholars to Write Reader-Friendly Manuscripts

Difficulty of reading scholarly papers is significantly reduced by reader-friendly writing principles. Writing reader-friendly text, however, is challenging due to difficulty in recognizing problems in one’s own writing. To help scholars identify and correct potential writing problems, we introduce SWAN (Scientific Writing AssistaNt) tool. SWAN is a rule-based system that gives feedback based o...