Sentence examples for prescriptive approaches from inspiring English sources

Historical grammarians did not follow earlier prescriptive approaches but were interested, instead, in discovering where the language under study came from.

A third distinction concerns descriptive versus prescriptive approaches to epistemology and the growth of human knowledge.

First, there was a reaction to heavyweight, prescriptive approaches to software development.

As competing artifacts, we selected prescriptive approaches from the BPM discipline that either take a multi-process, a multi-project, or both perspectives.

The current prescriptive approaches for evaluating fire resistance of reinforced concrete beams under standard fire exposure have a number of drawbacks and do not provide realistic performance assessment.

It was also shown that the use of risk did not negatively affect safety performance of the plants compared to standard prescriptive approaches.

This prescriptive approach to English did not win favor everywhere.

A prescriptive approach will not fit every property owner's needs.

Nor is there a widely accepted prescriptive approach for encouraging patient compliance.

I'm not advocating a prescriptive approach to careers delivery, merely a set of reasonable guidelines to clarify expectations.

Since the 1960s, most professional linguists have taken a descriptive rather than a prescriptive approach to the English language.