According to Herodotus in the pharaonic Egypt there were physicians for every organ. Numerous medicaments were used, along with magical ceremonies and enchantments (Herodotus, 1989). Hovewer, nothing relate to psoriasis in their medical papyruses. In the largest writing, the Ebers papyrus written about the 15th century BC, found in 1873 in Luxor, numerous skin diseases were described (paragraph...

There is considerable concern that students do not develop the writing skills needed for school, occupational, or personal success. A frequent explanation for this is that schools do not do a good job of teaching this complex skill. A recent meta-analysis of trueand quasi-experimental writing intervention research (S. Graham & D. Perin, 2007a) addressed this issue by identifying effective instr...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract – Sentiment Analysis is the process of determining whether a piece of writing is positive, negative or neutral. It’s also known as opinion mining, deriving the opinion or attitude of a speaker. Sentiment analysis is the process which helps in ident...

This paper describes an exploratory multivariate analysis designed to determine the relative contributions of age, verbal ability, education, reading habits, and recall strategies to the explanation of variation in performance on prose recall tasks among adults. Four hundred twenty-two adults in three age groups--young (18 to 32), middle (40 to 54) and old (62 to 80)--read and recalled in writi...

Recent scholarship on Chinese students’ English expository essays tends to blur or mitigate the differences between and writings. This alleged convergence of rhetorical norms gives rise a view that aspects in second language writing instruction research China should be de-emphasized. Drawing data from full-score compositions College Entrance Examination, this study examines how paragraphs are d...

Transitions are the glue that holds a paper together. These cohesive allies are needed when a paper “does not flow,” is “choppy,” or seems unrelated to the thesis of their parent essay. Transitions can be simple, such as the following: moreover, therefore, nevertheless, despite, consequently, instead, also. However (that’s another transition), it is better to use transitional phrases, rather th...

Thai sentences can be simplified or shortened by simply cutting some words out without changing its meaning. In this paper, Linear and non-linear Fisher discriminant analysis are applied to shorten Thai paragraph in a corpus. Features used in this paper are unique word ID and part of speech of the target word, as well as its three previous and three next adjacent words, and also its role as con...