Much useful new information (e.g. information in news reports) is often that which is surprising or unexpected. In other words, we harbour many expectations about the world, and when any of these expectations are violated (i.e. made inconsistent) by new information, we have a strong indicator that the information is interesting for us. An expectation can be compared with an integrity constraint...

Much useful information in news reports is often that which is surprising or unexpected. In other words, we harbour many expectations about the world, and when any of these expectation are violated (i.e. made inconsistent) by news, we have a strong indicator of some information that is interesting for us. In this paper we present a framework for identifying interesting information in news repor...

The purpose of this paper is to describe and model APA-style of writing for research reports. Each section of an APA-style paper is described and is written according to the APA-style guidelines to allow you to use it as a model. The Abstract summarizes the main points of the paper in 120 or fewer words. The Introduction should describe the research topic and hypotheses and the support for thes...

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This questionnaire based study compared the interpretation, use and preferences, among pathologists and surgeons, of descriptive phrases found in surgical reports. The results show that there is a wide variation in individual interpretation of phrases in both groups. The frequency of usage of phrases by pathologists and preference for phrases by surgeons were also diverse. The adoption of a lim...

In December 1868 we pointed out that in these days of report writing, when the existence of sundry departments absolutely depends on the labors of the medical executive, the amount of clerical work imposed on Civil Surgeons was getting formidable, and that by an official quibble they were supposed to have no office, and therefore no clerk or office allowance. Civil Surgeons were, therefore, com...

We have recently added a strong writing component to one of our freshman courses in electrical engineering. The students prepared two kinds of reports—memoranda and formal engineering project reports. Our instructional objectives were to execute well these two forms: to write with a professional tone, and to make good choices about which technical material to include. To meet these objectives, ...

This article reports on a work-in-progress research on media and information literacy in teamwork and distance work environments. We introduce a theoretical framework that articulates the social and informational dimensions of media and information literacy in the workplace. Based on this framework, we propose a method for investigating the relationship between information literacy and work org...