Writing Quality Matters

Quality Matters

The globalization of the medical device marketplace, combined with the growth of device software, has led to a signifi cant increase in software localization activity among device manufacturers (see sidebar for more on software localization). Though not yet a universal regulatory requirement, software localization has become an important competitive tool to gain access to foreign markets. As cl...

Writing smart: Writing quality research papers

The difficulty faced (by many) in reading a large fraction of the scientific literature is not, as is generally perceived, due to the complexity of scientific concepts, but is due to these difficult-to-read documents being poorly written. Scientific documents, however, need not be difficult to read, or even to write. In the rest of this article, we attempt to provide some insight into what goes...

Research Quality Matters

This paper discusses issues that arise when considering what is meant by the expression ‘research quality’ in universities. Popular measures of research quality are often based on determining the quality of a published journal paper, or of using these to publish journal league tables based on the assumption that the journal quality represents the quality of the papers published by the journal. ...

Bone quality: understanding what matters.

Linguistic Features of Writing Quality

In this study, a corpus of expert-graded essays, based on a standardized scoring rubric, is computationally evaluated so as to distinguish the differences between those essays that were rated as high and those rated as low. The automated tool, Coh-Metrix, is used to examine the degree to which highand lowproficiency essays can be predicted by linguistic indices of cohesion (i.e., coreference an...