This paper presents an analysis of argumentation strategies in news editorials within and across topics. Given nearly 29,000 argumentative editorials from the New York Times, we develop two machine learning models, one for determining an editorial’s topic, and one for identifying evidence types in the editorial. Based on the distribution and structure of the identified types, we analyze the usa...

My last editorial was written before the world became aware of covid-19 pandemic, and impact that it would have on our lives. (Editorials are some three months publication, l...

Newspaper editorials constitute a part of media discourse, which is an extremely important field of research in both intercultural rhetoric analysis and EFL/ESL studies. Specifically, certain features of editorial headlines and also their important role in monitoring and directing readers' attention have made the interface between the linguistic analysis of newspaper editorial headlines and tea...

The potential use of spoligotyping—a polymerase chain reaction based typing system for diVerentiation of strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis—for studying the epidemiology of tuberculosis in developing countries which do not routinely perform mycobacterial culture is described in this issue of Thorax by Heyderman et al in a study from Zimbabwe. 1 How does this newer method compare with the now...

The paper examines co-occurrences of the major theme types with the various lateral verbs, as outlined in G. Kress and R. Hodge (1979). primarily unmarked/participant themes, other (non-participant) noun group themes, and marked themes. The data consist of 60 editorials from 2 major British newspapers, "The Times" and "The Sun," that presumably share similar ideologies, although they disseminat...

Medical journals need and use editorials for the same reasons that newspapers do. They provide a focus; they give direction; they stimulate interest. Editorials are part of the personality of the journal that will make readers like or loathe it, and either reaction is better than indifference. One of the more pernicious effects of evidence-based medicine has been encouragement of the belief tha...

The term selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) implies a common mechanism of action for these agents; hence, the assumption by pharmacy managers and health care planners that they are all clinically equivalent. Extensive clinical case report data belie this assumption, however, as individuals may have differing responses to the different SSRIs, and the average profile of response in t...

Cancer is a complex of many types of malignant neoplastic growths, and each cancer of each organ exhibits numerous subsets. Despite this heterogeneity, malignant neoplasms have a uniform characteristic—the ability to invade host tissues and produce metastases. The most fearsome aspect of cancer is metastasis. This fear is well based. There have been great improvements in diagnosis, general pati...

Episodes of disordered behavior, coma or convulsions are not infrequent during the course of severe, chronic, congestive heart failure. When observed, they are usually attributed to some process such as anoxemia, a cerebral vascular disturbance, drug intoxication, electrolyte imbalance, or some other alteration directly or indirectly related to the underlying cardiac disorder. The importance of...