OBJECTIVES The dissemination of health-related news through newspapers can influence the behavior of patients and of health care providers. We conducted a study to analyze the characteristics of health-related research published by two leading Brazilian newspapers. METHOD We retrospectively evaluated health-related news published in the electronic versions of the newspapers Folha de São Paulo...

The American writer Ernest Hemingway, 1898--1961, said the following about the art of writing: ‘‘We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master’’. This phrase also applies to writers of scientific texts. We are apprentices and self-taught writers in this difficult task of producing quality scientific writing. Creating a good text is the result of the hard work of writing. ...

For the recent decades, scholars have examined the use of metadiscourse markers (MDMs) paradigmatically through several comparative studies across varying languages and cultures. No study to date, however, has investigated a comprehensive, full-fledged comparison of the possible disparities among the native English writers (NEW), Iranian English writers (IEW), and Iranian Persian writers (IPW) ...

This study compares the news coverage of election campaigns in three Swedish newspapers at the time of the 2002 national election and three U.S. newspapers at the time of the 2004 presidential election. The results from the content analysis show that the metaframe of politics as a strategic game was more common in the U.S. newspapers, while the metaframe of politics as issues was more common in...

An Erratum to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364022340045

An Erratum to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064562422070018