Problems in Writing Spoof Texts

Mediated Texts: a Heuristic for Academic Writing

ABSTRACf: Student petitions for alternative demonstrations of competency in academic writing led to the investigation of the use of"mediated texts" as a classroom practice which meets the requirements of "accommodation" as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This paper defines mediated texts, describes case studies which use these texts with deaf college students who are basic...

Gender, Genre, and Writing Style in Formal Written Texts

This paper explores differences between male and female writing in a large subset of the British National Corpus covering a range of genres. Several classes of simple lexical and syntactic features that differ substantially according to author gender are identified, both in fiction and in non-fiction documents. In particular, we find significant differences between maleand female-authored docum...

Prescription Writing Errors of Midwifery Students in Common Gynecological problems

Background and aim: Giving improper prescriptions is common among medical practitioners, mostly graduates, in most communities even developed countries. So far, to our knowledge, no study has been conducted on prescription writing of graduate midwifery students. Therefore, this study aimed to detect prescription writing errors of midwifery students in common gynecological problems. Methods: In ...

Texts in Computational Complexity: Counting Problems

Texts in Computational Complexity: Approximation Problems