This review, written to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the International Journal of Science Education, revealed a period of changes in the theoretical views of the language arts, the perceived roles of language in science education, and the research approaches used to investigate oral and written language in science, science teaching, and learning. The early years were dominated by behaviora...

Writing is an important aspect in language teaching and learning in which teacher should continue developing some techniques in teaching writing so that students can improve and master their writing ability. Alwasilah (2001:37) states that the responsibility for developing a specific or a professional writing skill is in school hands. While Heaton (1998:138) supports the importance of writing b...

The sustainability of any Data Warehouse System (DWS) is closely correlated with user satisfaction. Therefore, analysts, designers and developers focused more on achieving all its functionality, without considering others kinds of requirement such as dependability’s aspects. Moreover, these latter are often considered as properties of the system that will must be checked and corrected once the ...

This paper describes the development of a multimedia dictionary writing system for the Czech Sign Language dictionary, prepared in cooperation of several institutions dedicated to the sign language research and study. The presented dictionary system takes the advantage of electronic format and strongly relies on the use of multimedia evidences. The dictionary system has to deal with large amoun...

SIR JOHN FLOYER (1649-1734) may justifiably be credited with the invention of the first efficient instrument of precision to merit application in clinical practice. His own account of the development of a pulse watch for the accurate measurement of pulse rates in his patients has often been quoted,'7 and the instrument is known to have been commercially available in 1707.8 But Gunn,3 writing in...

A re-analysis of data originally presented in Boice (1983) confirmed that those who wrote daily in regularly scheduled writing sessions produced more writing and more new ideas than those who wrote "only when they felt like it." Writers who wrote to avoid punishment (donating money to a despised charity) wrote more and produced more ideas, but the re-analysis revealed that they were less effici...

This article presents a study on the syntactic development of children attending 1st cycle basic education based their writing. We seek to (i) identify which are predominant clause articulation processes at an early stage compositional writing from connectors that emerge this stage; (ii) determine if evidence knowledge about coordination and subordination processes; (iii) progression in use ove...

Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College and King Edward VII Memorial (KEM) Hospital were established in the year 1926 and in a short span of two decades the twin institutions had created a reputation not only for offering selfless and quality medical service but also for excellence in teaching, research and medical writing. The staff and faculty of the institutions met regularly to discuss th...

Each year, in an attempt to stimulate journalism students' interest in medical writing, CMAJ sponsors the Amy Chouinard Memorial Essay Prize. The $750 award is in memory of Amy Chouinard, a longtime and valued contributor to CMAJ and the Canadian Journal of Surgery. Students from any recognized journalism program at a Canadian college or university are eligible to enter, and the deadline for 19...

The case report, which has a long history in medicine, has seen its fortune wax and wane with time. We discuss the challenges facing the continued survival of the case report, including the inability of journals to cope with the increased load and increased cost of publication, ethical issues, the impact factor and the rise of evidence-based medicine. We highlight the important role that the ca...