When embarking on such an uncertain project as the creation of a new journal in what is not exactly a recognized academic field — a print journal, no less, for the discussion of systems for electronic text markup — it is difficult to avoid the temptation to explain the rationale and goals of the journal. We have neither avoided nor attempted to resist that temptation, and this essay is the resu...

There is a huge difference between public perceptions of the power of media in elections and academic evidence of its influence. This gap stems from the fact that the public uses different forms of evidence than academics use to infer media power. This essay outlines the reasons for this great divide, then highlights the seriousness of its consequences for the allocation of political resources....

With the innovation of computer technology and the application of the new network technology, many auxiliary network teaching and learning software and programs related to English teaching has emerged. Automated essay scoring system is a revolutionary innovation network system, in recent years, it makes the reform of English essay teaching mode more feasible. Basing on the network automated ess...

Academic self-regulation theories have proposed that learning involves a complex set of cognitive and metacognitive mechanisms that are enacted in phases. These phases include task understanding, strategy adoption, monitoring, and reflection. Whereas classical approaches to self-regulation contend that these phases work together to influence academic performance, the empirical research reported...

Medical apps have featured in popular websites and mainstream news media in recent months. However, there has been almost no mention of these tools in journals focusing on relevant ethical or social issues, including conflict of interest, the role of politics in science, and technological oversight. This essay examines the role that these philosophical issues might play in answering both public...

One of the crucial cognitive processes in academic writing is that of problem-finding in the critical reading stage before planning an essay. With the focus of our study being on the process of critical reading—a writer’s in-depth reading of an article in order to find issues that are capable of being addressed from her/his viewpoint—we are currently on the way to developing an affective critic...

Robert Earle Buchanan (1883-1973), 19th President of the Society of American Bacteriologists (later American Society for Microbiology), was one of the more important 20th century microbiologists. He was a dominant force in creating the field of bacterial systematics and made significant contributions to microbial physiology. He also numbered a number of influential textbooks. A reasonable concl...

Whites’ and Blacks’ intergroup attitudes were examined across four samples. Participants wrote essays describing their racial attitudes that were later coded for recurring themes. Coding revealed that Whites and Blacks had similar positive themes, but diverged for negative themes. White participants’ most frequently expressed negative attitudes were consistent with the tenets of modern racism t...

Many journalistic articles and a few academic ones have been published on the occasion of the half century of the Cuban revolution comparing that nation’s economic and social situation in 1958 and 2008. Such exercise is complicated by serious methodological problems that have not been properly analyzed. This essay summarizes the swings of economic policy in the last 50 years; explains the diffi...