support. The writers are grateful to Ph.D. students Honghao Li for providing plans of the ten story building. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this paper are those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or the individuals mentioned here.

Current usability practices favor such an approach. Increasingly, companies are conducting usability programs with cross-functional teams including full-time usability specialists, technical writers with some usability responsibilities, and representatives from marketing and product development. In the authors’ consulting firm, Tec-Ed, most of the usability specialists are also veteran technica...

In numerous incidences, the news coverage of medical research has incited unjustified optimism or fear. The medical literature provides an archive of the scientific community's condemnation of these misleading reports, but little is known about how they are judged by newsmakers. This study explored science writers' reactions to a controversial New York Times story that inflated the hopes of tho...

In view of contributing to the scientific validation of the individuality of handwriting, the testing of the two so called fundamental laws of handwriting--1: no two people write exactly alike; 2: no one person writes the same word exactly the same way twice--was approached by analysing the shape of 445 handwritten capital characters O produced by three individuals. A methodology based on class...

One particular challenge in AI is the computational modelling and simulation of creativity. Feedback and learning from experience are key aspects of the creative process. Here we investigate how we could implement feedback in creative systems using a social model. From the field of creative writing we borrow the concept of a Writers Workshop as a model for learning through feedback. The Writers...

A fter writing nearly 70 Perspectives, it was bound to happen; it seems I have hit " writer's block. " This is the first time I sat down to write my monthly essay in over 8 months and I decided to use the occasion to familiarize myself with this condition (and try to liberate myself from it). Writer's block varies in intensity from extreme (abandoning one's career as an author—think Harper Lee ...

Since the advent of the process approach in writing research, composition theorists and cognitive psychologists have been trying to develop cognitive models that describe how people write. But they have run up against a major obstacle. Adults use such a wide variety of strategies that no single model can describe them all. In this paper we present a new view of adult writing strategies. We argu...

Current usability practices favor such an approach. Increasingly, companies are conducting usability programs with cross-functional teams including full-time usability specialists, technical writers with some usability responsibilities, and representatives from marketing and product development. In the authors’ consulting firm, Tec-Ed, most of the usability specialists are also veteran technica...

this study set out to investigate the similarities and differences in frequency of incidence and type of hedging devices used in research articles written by iranian and non-iranian writers. for the purposes of the study, a corpus including 40 agriculture articles in english (20 written by iranian and 20 by non-iranian writers) were selected. collection and classification of the hedging devices...