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Direct linkMacDonald, Susan Peck – Written Communication, 2005
Researchers studying science communication have criticized the sensationalism that often appears in journalistic accounts of science news. This article looks at the linguistic sources of that sensationalism by analyzing the journalistic coverage of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study of hormone replacement research, which was abruptly…
Descriptors: Syntax, Nouns, Newspapers, Discourse Analysis
