The present study investigates the use of conjunction cohesion in writing on the basis of text analyses and global scoring of 70 compositions. It analyzes the contrast of scores in pretest and posttest and the overall uses of conjunction cohesion in compositions, and studies the relationship between the frequencies of conjunction cohesion and writing quality. The research result reveals that th...

How do teachers define failure when learning to write? We don’t ask the question often enough. In this article, I attempt to offer a definition and critique of the nature and production of failure in writing classrooms and programs. I argue that the production of failure in writing assessments can create more purposeful consequences, particularly for those historically most likely to suffer “fa...

We introduce a corpus of science journalism articles, categorized in three levels of writing quality.1 The corpus fulfills a glaring need for realistic data on which applications concerned with predicting text quality can be developed and evaluated. In this article we describe how we identified, guided by the judgements of renowned journalists, samples of excellent, very good and typical writin...

Arnau de Vilanova, one of the most important physicians of the Latin Middle Ages, was familiar with the vast majority of Aristotle's works that had been translated into Latin. He used a wide range of them, such as the Organon--the introductory books on logic - and the natural philosophical books, which cover a different branches of knowledge. He used Aristotle as an authority, trying to reconci...

Adriane Fugh-Berman examines documents unsealed in recent litigation to investigate how pharmaceutical companies promoted hormone therapy drugs, including the use of medical writing companies to produce ghostwritten manuscripts and place them into medical journals.

Methods: First, we constructed a questionnaire based on the descriptors collected from various sources in order to elicit university teachers’ views on the importance of these descriptors. A revised version was produced based on the feedback from the initial questionnaire survey. In order to further investigate what level or levels these remaining descriptors would fall into, 35 university teac...