The book is subdivided into three main sections: a basic principles section (chapters 1 to 5), the main sections of a scientific thesis (chapters 6 to 11), and an exemplary thesis (chapter 12). The first chapter provides general information on writing management, such as writing process phases, different writing types according to Scheuermann (2013), writing conditions on site, time and atmosph...

The information needed for safe prescribing is voluminous, complex and subject to continuous change. The computer makes an ideal instrument on which to store, access, and update general practice prescribing information. By using a desktop computer to check and write all prescriptions, it is possible for the general practitioner to build up a medication data base which has the capacity to record...

With nine chapters on theories and 10 methods, all contributed by knowledgeable professionals, Theories Methods of Writing Center Research: A Practical Guide, edited Jo Mackiewicz & Rebecca Day Babcock, is the research guide I have been waiting for. previously conducted two IRB-approved studies writing centers am in middle my third; without this guide, had to pull from multiple sources tried re...

History, though it can be revived, rewritten and altered, always functions as a source of inspiriation encouragement for the upcoming generations. Although is prone to distorted, contrived re-interpreted by following generations yet constantly serves guiding light future leading them in right direction without committing mistakes which human forefathers had mistakenly committed. an umbrella ter...

Many chapters in this book provide a good sense of what writing to learn is and how it works. I will explain in this chapter how I use writing-to-learn techniques to help students to think through an idea more clearly. Two aspects of writing to learn are very important: it helps students to understand content better, and it shows them that writing is a process with various stages. When students...

King devotes four chapters to those physicians who struggled to make sense out of the bewildering phenomena of febrile diseases so prevalent during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He examines the writings of William Cullen, Benjamin Rush, Henry Clutterbuck, Fran9ois Broussais, Charles Caldwell, John Armstrong, Nathan Smith and many others. A strength of these chapters is King's attenti...

In their introduction the editors claim that this is a book for writing instructors written by writing instructors. Although they do not mention this explicitly it is clear that they are assuming a USA context. Not only are all the contributors from universities in the United States but many chapters also refer to the contemporary situation of what they calìcomposition and rhetoric studies' in ...

Texts such as this have pros and cons and this book is no exception. It is right up to date especially the references and the authors are experts in their own field of interest but there is no index and the writing style varies from chapter to chapter. There is a tremendous variation in the scope of its chapters; some are general reviews, others are very specific, research papers e.g. chapters ...

no doubt writing on subjects which they have studied exhaustively. Professor Dicks' account of some psychological studies of the German character presents concisely and most intelligibly the fruits of many years' research. Several chapters consist of surveys of recent writing, and experimental work, notably Dr. Eysenck's on War and Aggressiveness and Dr. Himmelweit's on Frustration and Aggressi...