n engl j med 366;16 nejm.org april 19, 2012 1457 the meetings of the medical society are usually infrequent, but the medical journal, like the newspaper, is an ever-present friend whose influence and advice are potent for good or evil.”1 Yet medical journals have often had a tenuous existence. Thousands have come and gone over the past 200 years, and many continue to struggle to define their ro...

The Dundee Eyetracking Corpus contains eyetracking data collected while native speakers of English and French read newspaper editorial articles. Similar resources for other languages are still rare, especially for languages in which words are not overtly delimited with spaces. This is a report on a project to build an eyetracking corpus for Japanese. Measurements were collected while 24 native ...

How audiences behave behind newspaper paywalls is, in research, almost unknown territory. In editorial offices, however, this has become common knowledge, since traffic data is available around the clock. study, we have had opportunity to study how subscribers with different degrees of subscription experience paywall. analysis, use generated from tracking scripts and stored Amazon Redshift. The...

I would like to start this editorial commentary with a quote read: “The youth of today is spoiled the root. They are mean, ungodly, and lazy. will never be before they ever able hold on our values”.
 This does not come from an article read in conservative province newspaper published 2 days ago nor it part political discourse right-wing Chilean presidential candidate. sentence rather displ...

This study investigated whether film viewers recognize four basic genres (comic, drama, action and nonfiction) on the basis of genre-typical event cues or of genretypical filmic realization cues of events. Event cues are similar to the narrative content of a film sequence, while filmic realization cues are similar to stylistic surface cues of a film sequence. It was predicted that genre recogni...

Taking a genre perspective on design, this article proposes eight design recommendations for online newspapers. These recommendations are based on features that mediate a specific purpose and use between publisher and audience, which we describe as genre rules in terms of purpose, form, and positioning. They are also based on genre change regarding design, and the heritage from print regarding ...

There has been a growing interest in genre as a powerful means of analysing and understanding texts in cross-disciplinary areas. Genres tend to be conceived as generic structures that constrain individuals and communicative events. In second language writing pedagogy, much attention has been given to raising ESL (English as a Second Language) students’ structural awareness of genres as the rout...

The previous chapter reviewed three traditions of genre studies, namely, the new rhetoric, systemic functional and ESP perspectives on genre. While new rhetoric genre analyses focus on the interrelation between text and context and SFL genre studies stress the linguistic analysis of text, ESP approaches to genre take an approach that is some way between these two. This chapter extends the discu...

Automatically generating text to accompany information graphics Mary Ellen Foster Master of Science Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 1999 Generally, when quantitative information is to be presented, some form of graphical presentation is used, often with a textual caption to ensure that the audience notices particular aspects of the data. This thesis presents the pr...