†Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (10601001), Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (050460102, 070412065), Foundation of Innovation Team on Basic Mathematics of Anhui University. ‡Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (60772121), NSF of Department of Education of Anhui Province (2005KJ005ZD), Foundation of Innovation Team on Eletrocircuit Desi...

This research aims to investigate the attitude of natural science and social students toward their English class, as well evaluative language employed in expressing opinions class. The study employs Martin & White's (2005) appraisal framework analyze used. participants consist 60 high school students, with 30 from Natural Science major Social Sciences major, who were selected using purposiv...

Oil and water don’t mix: a common expression describing two things that do not usually combine well. In this paper I use analogy to discuss some of the techniques methods used within Danish postgraduate engineering stream merge contested territory between Human Science, abductive thinking Natural logical preconceptions (Water & Oil). The course was designed help young engineers step outside...