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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by recurrent thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions) that are thought to help mitigate obsessions ( APA, 2013 ). One issue that has gained attention in popular discourse is the use of OCD as an adjective (e.g. I’m so OCD), which is said to trivialize the disorder (NAMI, 2015)...
Communicating scientific research to the public is as important as ever. Several studies have investigated the ways that science writers communicate personal feelings and assessments, otherwise known as stance, in their writing, reporting somewhat mixed results. In this study, I examine the grammatical stance marking of science news articles. I com...
Reviewing is an important task in one's academic career. Learning the skills and gaining practice are often overlooked activities in postgraduate education programmes. English for Specific Purposes instituted a Student Editorial Board (SEB) in 2022 and tasked two new Associate Editors to provide mentorship in reviewing over the course of a year. Th...
The public understanding of science has produced a large body of research about general attitudes toward science. However, most studies of science attitudes have been carried out via surveys or in experimental conditions, and few make use of the growing contexts of online science communication to investigate attitudes without researcher interventio...
This paper introduces the CommonLit Ease of Readability (CLEAR) corpus, which provides unique readability scores for ~ 5000 text excerpts along with information about the excerpt’s year of publishing, genre, and other metadata. The CLEAR corpus will provide researchers interested in discourse processing and reading with a resource from which to dev...
In this paper, we introduce the Commonlit Ease of Readability (CLEAR) corpus. The corpus provides researchers within the educational data mining community with a resource from which to develop and test readability metrics and to model text readability. The CLEAR corpus improves on previous readability corpora include size (N = ~5,000 reading excerp...
