Since the advent of the process approach in writing research, composition theorists and cognitive psychologists have been trying to develop cognitive models that describe how people write. But they have run up against a major obstacle. Adults use such a wide variety of strategies that no single model can describe them all. In this paper we present a new view of adult writing strategies. We argu...

Current usability practices favor such an approach. Increasingly, companies are conducting usability programs with cross-functional teams including full-time usability specialists, technical writers with some usability responsibilities, and representatives from marketing and product development. In the authors’ consulting firm, Tec-Ed, most of the usability specialists are also veteran technica...

this study set out to investigate the similarities and differences in frequency of incidence and type of hedging devices used in research articles written by iranian and non-iranian writers. for the purposes of the study, a corpus including 40 agriculture articles in english (20 written by iranian and 20 by non-iranian writers) were selected. collection and classification of the hedging devices...