The Grammatical Metaphor: this is an absolutely fascinating diagram (PDF format) that was presented by Dr John Gibbons (Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney) at an Australian Technical Society for Communication national conference and again, through popular demand, at one of the Society's monthly meetings.
The diagram shows how the simple, every day language can be translated in a higher, "academic" style that, although it seems quite straight forward, can be surprisingly difficult to understand. The translation occurs by a metamorphosis of one part of speech into another — not of just the occasional word, but for many words in a single sentence. It is the impact of the metamorphosis that makes the end-result hard to understand, especially by people for whom English is not their first language. Similarly, readers will find some Technical Writers' output just as hard to understand because we make too many assumptions about the literary and language skills of our audience. Think about it.
Expanded Figures of Speech contents list: this is a PDF file based on the Table of Contents of Bullinger's Figures of Speech (Baker Book House Company, 1968) covering the Hebrew and Greek language (the book is briefly reviewed in our Book Shop). The PDF file makes it considerably easier to find the actual Figure cited by Bullinger in his Companion Bible margin. (With permission from Baker Book House Company.)
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These programs provided students in physiology/medicine fields with five hours of solid interactive learning. You could apply e-stimuli to e-tissue and observe the e-responses. You could re-run Starling's Law of the Heart, and you could apply different e-chemicals to e-alpha and e-beta receptors to assess the response and to come to grips with drug receptor specificities.
There were on-line quizzes (tests) to make sure you learnt the necessary information. As a bonus, the tests were clever enough to know when you had only misspelt a word and it gave you the points anyway. (It even let you swear at it via the keyboard and gave you appropriate responses.)
We are working to translate these programs to the Internet. We will notify you of developments as they occur. The first program, Autonomic Nervous System will be provided free-to-net but subsequent programs are intended to be by subscription with online access.
For information concerning the Bodywise programmes, please send e-mail.
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