Brian Budgell
Biographic Data
| ID | 9631993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Budgell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Budgell |
| SIGNATURE | BUDGELL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6095-0794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Trends in the Expression of Epistemic Stance in NIH Research Funding Applications
We report on changes in the expression of epistemic stance in competitive funding applications—that is, applicants’ confidence and certainty towards knowledge and beliefs. We analysed abstracts describing all projects funded by the US National Institutes of Health during the period 1985–2020 for 140 stance features. Trends that we identify indicate that applicants adopt a stance less cautious and less tentative, and increasingly confident, optimi…
Hype in reports of clinical research
‘Use the active voice whenever possible’
Medical writing is sometimes criticized for excessive use of the passive voice. The purpose of this study is twofold: (i) to provide quantitative descriptions of how the passive voice is used in medical journals and (ii) to assess the impact of style guidelines encouraging use of the active voice. From a corpus of 297 primary research articles published in the top five medical journals, we extracted 19,691 passive constructions. Analyses show tha…
Exporting Applied Linguistics Technology
Applied linguistics has the ability to solve important real‐world problems, and in this entry we examine one such instance: the application of the technologies of corpus linguistics to facilitate inter‐professional and intra‐professional written communications in the domain of biomedicine and health.
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Exporting Applied Linguistics Technology
Applied linguistics has the ability to solve important real‐world problems, and in this entry we examine one such instance: the application of the technologies of corpus linguistics to facilitate inter‐professional and intra‐professional written communications in the domain of biomedicine and health.
‘Use the active voice whenever possible’
Medical writing is sometimes criticized for excessive use of the passive voice. The purpose of this study is twofold: (i) to provide quantitative descriptions of how the passive voice is used in medical journals and (ii) to assess the impact of style guidelines encouraging use of the active voice. From a corpus of 297 primary research articles published in the top five medical journals, we extracted 19,691 passive constructions. Analyses show tha…
Hype in reports of clinical research
Trends in the Expression of Epistemic Stance in NIH Research Funding Applications
We report on changes in the expression of epistemic stance in competitive funding applications—that is, applicants’ confidence and certainty towards knowledge and beliefs. We analysed abstracts describing all projects funded by the US National Institutes of Health during the period 1985–2020 for 140 stance features. Trends that we identify indicate that applicants adopt a stance less cautious and less tentative, and increasingly confident, optimi…
Linguistics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Academic Writing and Publishing (2 works) · Applied linguistics (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Bioinformatics (1 work) · Biology (1 work)