INTRODUCTION Women with a history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) have high rates of depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and sexual problems in adulthood. AIM We tested an expressive writing-based intervention for its effects on psychopathology, sexual function, satisfaction, and distress in women who have a history of CSA. METHODS Seventy women with CSA histories completed five 30-m...

Data-driven learning has been proved as an effective approach in helping learners solve various writing problems such as correcting lexical or grammatical errors, improving the use of collocations and generating ideas in writing, etc. This article reports on an empirical study in which data-driven learning was accomplished with the assistance of the user-friendly BNCweb, and presents the evalua...

When writing can change your life, when writing can enrich you by offering much money, why don't you try it? Are you still very confused of where getting the ideas? Do you still have no idea with what you are going to write? Now, you will need reading. A good writer is a good reader at once. You can define how you write depending on what books to read. This optics of light scattering media prob...

One of the beauties of use cases is their accessible, informal format. Use cases are easy to write, and the graphical notation is trivial. Because of their simplicity, use cases are not intimidating, even for teams that have little experience with formal requirements specification and management. However, the simplicity can be deceptive; writing good use cases takes some skill and practice. Man...

Writing well in English is a challenge for non-native English speakers. When readers are unable to comprehend what they read they just give up reading and fail to get to the content. In this paper we describe problems encountered in the English writing of scientific abstracts by Brazilian Portuguese speakers. We collected and analyzed a corpus of 115 abstracts in which we identified specific la...

When writing can change your life, when writing can enrich you by offering much money, why don't you try it? Are you still very confused of where getting the ideas? Do you still have no idea with what you are going to write? Now, you will need reading. A good writer is a good reader at once. You can define how you write depending on what books to read. This problems in breast surgery a repair m...

based on recent field research among the ekiti) south west nigeria) this paper explores the question ofphilosophic sages. it attempts to find traditional experts) possessing the capacity for critical and rigorous thought) as required l?j pbilosopby, but ivithout the abiiity to nirite. tno k(!)' questions arise: do experts in philosophic thought exist among the ekiti yoruba) and if so) do t...

In China, English, as an important tool for self-expression and mutual communication, is paid great attention to all over the country and College English has become a compulsory course at all colleges and universities. English writing is one of the most important language skills for college students. For a long time, English writing has been the throe throat for college students, which manifest...

Handwriting Recognition Technology, Children, and the Writing Process, PhD thesis, Janet C Read ii Handwriting Recognition Technology, Children, and the Writing Process Janet C Read Department of Computing University of Central Lancashire Preston [email protected] Abstract The research reported here investigates the match between child, technology and task in the scenario of children using han...