The potential for Numeracy across the Curriculum is illustrated in this paper. Based on a newspaper article about salt in the Australian diet, two avenues of investigation are suggested. One is based on exploring the meaning and implications of the numbers in the article, using percent. The other involves data collection from a local supermarket and the software TinkerPlots. Introduction As the...

The availability of semantically enriched data in repositories of larger content providers offers a means for new ways of multimedia presentation authoring. Existing (semi-)automatic content composition environments explore limited numbers of genres and concentrate on templatebased approaches for composing discourse structures for these genres. We analyze a number of genres based on identifiabl...

W hen the South Bend Common Council votes tonight on an ord inance in tended to curta il raucous student parties in neighborhoods near Notre Dame, i t w i l l m ake a s ta te ­ m ent abou t the h is to r ic a lly complex re lationship between the University and the city. University leaders have said they do not th ink an ordinance requ iring students to pre-reg­ ister off-campus parties is the ...