This study attempted to establish an image of a science writer based on a synthesis of writing theory, models, and research literature on academic writing in science and other disciplines and to contrast this image with an actual prototypical image of scientists as writers of science. The synthesis was used to develop a questionnaire to assess scientists’ writing habits, beliefs, strategies, an...

extremes and produced a story which is vivid, factual and Convincing. The theme?that of the cause and course of alcoholism ln a personality of refinement?is handled with insight and knowledge, sympathy and toleration, and built up without either sentimentality or sensationalism. Events move quickly but carry conviction, the style is impersonal and the descriptions succinct. To sticklers, the us...

The present study aims at investigating a discursive role of colors in the construction gender identities selected corpus English novels by Pakistani females. It focuses on understanding mechanism which contributes to construe, challenge or reinforce traditional images society. A corpus-based critical approach was employed demystify constructed structures web texts for this study. research find...

" Why should Hollywood writers insist that Miss [Lena] Horne is the only good looking [black] woman in the U.S.A. who can act? " posed a wartime issue of The Call (Kansas City, Missouri). 1 Writers at The Call, the regional black newspaper, understood that this Hollywood tokenism, which framed Horne as exceptional, perpetuated white supremacy by substituting symbolic equality for tangible civil...

In academic writing, comparison and contrast is particularly valuable because it enables you to see familiar things in new ways. "Common sense" says that two things are the same, but a careful comparison and contrast demonstrates their important differences. That same common sense may say that two things are totally incompatible, but when you compare and contrast them systematically, you discov...

A new handwriting model is proposed for simulating complex handwriting variation in obedience to individual handwriting tendencies. Individual handwriting t,endency is represented as a set of deformation rules each of which deforms one structure of pen movements. Characters are represented as hierarchical descriptions of pen movements, so that deformation rules for various types of pen movement...