Abbott welcomes the opportunity to comment on the assessment report developed by the Liverpool Reviews and Implementation Group for this appraisal. The executive summary outlines the key points regarding Abbott’s assessment of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of adalimumab for the treatment of AS. Information provided in italics has been quoted from the assessment report. Please note that th...

A key to success for management information systems (MIS) graduates is good communication skills, especially writing skills. An effort to incorporate writing assignments and instruction into a sequence of MIS courses at a major midwestern university is having the unintended but substantial benefit of helping the MIS program create an assessment plan that includes all elements required by the As...

At this point, you should have read and analyzed a collection of research articles and prepared detailed notes, possibly including summary tables (see Chapter 7). You should now begin to synthesize these notes and tabled material into a new whole, the sum of which will become your literature review. In other words, you are now ready to begin the process of writing a literature review. This chap...

Different summarization requirements could make the writing of a good summary more difficult, or easier. Summary length and the characteristics of the input are such constraints influencing the quality of a potential summary. In this paper we report the results of a quantitative analysis on data from large-scale evaluations of multi-document summarization, empirically confirming this hypothesis...

The present study investigates the effects of multimedia annotation through the discourse scheme and summary writing through the grounding theory (Chang, 1997) on text comprehension. Specifically, the study focuses on examining the influences of multimedia annotation from a special perspective, namely, the use of modified discourse scheme to trigger EFL learners’ active reading process, rather ...

BACKGROUND Summarization is a process to select important information from a source text. Summarizing strategies are the core cognitive processes in summarization activity. Since summarization can be important as a tool to improve comprehension, it has attracted interest of teachers for teaching summary writing through direct instruction. To do this, they need to review and assess the students'...