Their replies were instructive: "Teaches teamwork"; "Builds self-confidence"; "Meeting deadlines is a crucial life discipline"; "Opens you up to a wide range of human experience"; "It's hugely enjoyable in its own right".
The majority of information provided was on whether the case has to be unusual or not, provided by 99 (60%) journals, or have an instructive or teaching point required by 91 (55%) journals.
For advice on content of case reports, we sought information on nature of cases to be reported including, cases with instructive or teaching point, originality (novel or creative reports), innovative cases (new methods or ideas, including modifications of existing ones), unusual or rare cases, and cases leading to hypothesis generation.
Our only rule is that it be instructive and teach a lesson in 30 seconds or less.
Unlike myths, however, fables almost always end with an explicit moral message, and this highlights the characteristic feature of fables namely, that they are instructive tales that teach morals about human social behaviour.
The case of the Berlin patient is instructive and it teaches many lessons that may be applicable to cure HIV infection in a more generalizable way.
Good moms teach their daughters what to be — independent, ambitious, judicious with the mascara — but just as instructive are those who teach their daughters what not to be.
By Jenna Krajeski May 7, 2009 Good moms teach their daughters what to be — independent, ambitious, judicious with the mascara — but just as instructive are those who teach their daughters what not to be.
Offer to teach an instructive elective course at a local community college.
According to them, the designed curriculum did not provide enough instructive information or an instructional guideline specific enough for teachers to know with certainty what they should do when teaching the lessons.
Fifteen years of wandering around sea-smashed, out-of-season beach resorts with a Dictaphone have taught me the banal but instructive lesson that generally in this country you gets what you pays for.
