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Dysthe, Olga – Written Communication, 2002
This article focuses on supervising professors' and master's degree students' understanding and experiences of supervision practices in a Norwegian university, with focus on differences in text cultures and text norms between and within three academic disciplines. The interview study shows that each discipline is a heterogeneous discourse…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Masters Programs

Finn, Seth – Written Communication, 1985
Results of two experiments revealed a significant correlation between function-word predictability and reader enjoyment and a strong correlation between content-word unpredictability and reader enjoyment. (FL)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Information Sources, Mass Media Effects, Models