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Brand, Alice G. – 1983
Although contemporary psychologists generally acknowledge the significance of affect in human experience, few have attempted to understand its role in cognitive processes. The same can be said of writing specialists. In fact, New Criticism, so long dominant in American literary thinking, still continues to influence the emotions writers disclose…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Authors, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes
Bazerman, Charles – 1981
To identify the means by which scientific discourse achieves any degree of success in representing nature, an examination was made of Arthur H. Compton's and Alfred W. Simon's paper, "Measurements of Beta-Rays Associated with Scattered X-Rays," which originally appeared in 1925. Analysis reveals that the rhetorical choices of Compton,…
Descriptors: Authors, Content Analysis, Language Styles, Nonfiction