Number of found records: 59
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ALEXANDER, Jan; TATE, Marsha Ann |
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Evaluating Web Resources |
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On line ( 15/06/2004) |
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Presentation of different criteria for the evaluation of web pages |
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Evaluation; web pages; criteria |
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ANDERSON, Kenneth; MACLEAN, Joan |
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A Genre Analysis Study of 80 Medical Abstracts |
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Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1997, n.8, pp.1-23 |
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A study investigated the usefulness of instructional materials on the writing of scientific articles by comparing the descriptions of abstracts offered in the textbook with a sample of abstracts drawn from four fields of medicine (clinical medicine, surgery, epidemiology, basic sciences). The comparison was confined to abstracts of results-focused papers, and papers were divided evenly between British and North American journals. Analysis focused on discourse features in three areas: purpose; methods and results; and conclusion. Results indicate close similarities between the textbook and the abstracts, but also show the textbook to be overly simplistic and rigid. The relationship between information structure and linguistic elements was found to be more complex than was implied in the book. Specifications for sections introducing purpose ignore some frequent lexical signals; methods tend to be amalgamated into adjacent sections; and it is not always necessary to conclude with a generalization. While the analysis detected no systematic differences between abstracts in British and North American journals, some evidence was found that conventions vary according to field or type of research design. Contains 16 references. (DB) |
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Language patterns; Language variation; Medical research; scientific research; Technical writing |
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BACK, Jonathan; OPPENHEIM, Charles |
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A model of cognitive load for IR: implications for user relevance feedback interaction |
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Information Research, 2001, vol. 6, n.2 |
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On line (13/05/2005) |
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Preliminary experimentation demonstrates that although a system that allows for context specific spontaneity is likely to improve the acquisition of user relevance feedback, this is by no means a solution. We believe that the problems associated with a lack of willingness to modify queries or to provide relevance feedback within the Web environment, are indicative of a high state of cognitive load. A number of task and cognitive variables exist and need to be identified before a model of cognitive load for IR can be developed. (AU) |
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Relevance; relevance feedback; |
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BARKER, Joe |
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Critical evaluation of resources |
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On line ( 15/06/2004) |
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Presentation of different criteria for the evaluation of web resources and links to other evaluation sites |
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Evaluation; criteria; Internet; web resource |
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