This paper poses the question of how academic writers present themselves to the audience and focuses on the functions of forms of self-reference in Czech and Slovak scientific discourse. For scientific texts, the Latin rhetoric tradition recommended the so called pluralis modestiae or pluralis auctoris as an appropriate linguistic means of self-presentation of the writer, conveying his modest a...

The mounting evidence of the returns to college quality has focused attention on the admissions practice of preferential treatment of legacies. This paper finds that legacies are slightly less likely to receive top grades, although the magnitude of these effects are quite small.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

These are two in a series of occasional reviews of sabermetric articles published in academic journals. It is part of a project of mine to collect and catalog sabermetric research, and I would appreciate learning of and receiving copies of any studies of which I am unaware. Please visit the Statistical Baseball Research Bibliography at www.udel.edu/johnc/fa culty/pavitt.html, use it for your re...

BACKGROUND Although the effects of nutrition on health and school performance are often cited, few research studies have examined the effect of diet quality on the academic performance of children. This study examines the association between overall diet quality and academic performance. METHODS In 2003, 5200 grade 5 students in Nova Scotia, Canada, and their parents were surveyed as part of ...

In responding to the individual learning needs of bilingual pupils, it is important that linguistic development be integrated with other kinds of learning. Learners require English to communicate with peers and teachers and to continue the process of conceptual development within the context of an English medium school. Thomas and Collier (1997, 2000) have symbolised the relationship between th...

In linguistic studies, the academic level of the vocabulary in a text can be described in terms of statistical physics by using a "temperature" concept related to the text's word-frequency distribution. We propose a "comparative thermo-linguistic" technique to analyze the vocabulary of a text to determine its academic level and its target readership in any given language. We apply this techniqu...

This study serves as a pilot study for a possible future study including the same variables. The purpose of the pilot study was to find a relationship in the college academic setting between academic self-efficacy, stress coping skills, and academic performance. Sixty-six undergraduate students, 17 male and 49 female, from a university in northwestern United States participated in the study. St...