In the context of defining language use tasks in the TLU domain for a job-specific performance assessment development, McNamara (1996) states that such investigations may take four different forms: consultation with expert informants, literature search, job analysis and workplace observation, and collection and examination of texts (spoken and written) from the workplace.
Content analysis is a systematic examination of text in order to determine, identify and group certain concepts and themes within the text [ 28].
It must be marked that the trend described using journal articles is confirmed by the examination of text books on soil ecology that hardly mention explicitly evolutionary issues and model results [14], [15].
Discourse analysis enables the examination of text in the form of newspaper articles [ 14].
His examination of old texts found that – far from being a figment of the British culinary imagination – spaghetti bolognese, or spaghetti al ragù, as it would be known in Italy, dates back five centuries.
In a dramatic leap based on Mr. Adamo's extensive examination of Gospel texts and theological writings, the opera presents Mary Magdalene as not only Jesus' most important disciple but also his wife.
Jewish culture of this age was distinguished by the supreme literary merit of its Hebrew poetry, the new spirit of relatively free and rationalist examination of hallowed texts and doctrines, and the extension of Jewish cultural perspectives to totally new horizons mathematics, astronomy, medicine, philosophy, political theory, aesthetics, and belles-lettres.
Lipsius was already engaged in the emendation and critical examination of Latin texts, especially of Cicero, Propertius and Varro; and, as early as 1566, he put together three books of Variae lectiones ("Variant Readings"), which were published in 1569 at Antwerp.
Examples from the teaching experience of the group members, examination of popular texts and curricula, and released items from state tests helped form a consensus of the appropriate level and meaning of the NRC standard under discussion.
Even though the categories "activation" (iv) and "doubt" (viii) do not represent complementary concepts like the other reaction patterns, critical examination of the texts revealed a particular connection between doubt and activation to (critical) thought and reflection.
