scholarly journals Diagrams, Difference-Makers, nd Background Knowledge

Filozofia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (10) ◽  
pp. 823-840
Author(s):  
Tee Sim-Hui
Keyword(s):  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Difference Makers

LEXICAL MEANS OF EXPRESSING EVALUATION IN MODERN GERMAN JOURNALISTIC TEXTS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ирина Владимировна Матвеева ◽  
Сергей Николаевич Саможенов ◽  
Юлия Николаевна Зинцова
Keyword(s):  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Evaluation Tools ◽  
Language Competence

Авторы публицистических текстов все чаще отходят от стандартизации речи и клишированности в пользу поиска новых экспрессивных средств выражения оценочности, которые требуют от читателя определенного количества фоновых знаний и разработанной языковой компетенции. В данной статье установлены лексические особенности использования оценочных средств в немецких публицистических текстах, выявлены их разновидности и сферы употребления. Authors of journalistic texts are increasingly moving away from the standardization of speech and cliché in favor of searching for new expressive means of expressing evaluation, which require the reader to have a certain amount of background knowledge and developed language competence. In this article, the lexical features of the use of evaluation tools in German journalistic texts are established, their varieties and areas of use are identified.

Making a Difference

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rani Lill Anjum ◽  
Stephen Mumford
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trials ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Controlled Trials ◽  
Positive Difference ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Difference Making ◽  
Making A Difference ◽  
Difference Makers ◽  
Trial Intervention

One view of what links a cause to an effect is that causes make a difference to whether or not the effect is produced. This assumption is behind comparative studies, such as the method of randomized controlled trials, aimed at showing whether a trial intervention makes a positive difference to outcomes. Comparative studies are regarded as the gold standard in some areas of research but they are also problematic. There can be causes that make no difference and some difference-makers that are not causes. This indicates that difference-making should be taken as a symptom of causation: a feature that accompanies it in some, though not all, cases. Symptoms can be useful in the discovery of causes but they cannot be definitive of causation.

scholarly journals Being a Patient Representative Is More Work Than Being a Patient Advocate—Done Right, It Is Also Likely to Be More Effective

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 1017-1019
Author(s):  
Richard Wassersug
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Patient Advocate ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Patient Representative

For a patient to be effective as a “patient representative” within a health-related organization, work and more than just accepting an honorific title is required. I argue that for a patient to be most effective as a patient representative requires different types of background knowledge and commitment than being a “patient advocate”. Patients need to be cautious about how, when, and where they take on an official role of either an “advocate” or “representative”, if they truly want to be a positive influence on health outcomes.

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