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6. The Task of Modern Philosophy
7. Towards A Humanistic Medicine in A Modern Age
8. Morality and Foreign Policy
9. Learning the Hard Way: How to Help Children with Learning Disorders.
10. What is A Historical Fact?
11. Education and the I.Q.
12.The Economic Organization of the Prisoner of War Camp
13. A Cultural History of the French Revolution
14. Political Development and Social Change
15. A Brief History of Time
16. The Common Interest: How Our Social Welfare Policies Don't Work, and What We Can Do About
Them
17. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
18. Signs in the Wilderness
Questions:
a. Within what academic field/s does this text probably belong?
b. (i) Does the title reveal what the specific subject of the text is, or does it keep you guessing? (Note that
sometimes the title keeps you guessing, but the sub-title explains it), (ii) Glance at the brief abstract under the
title «Signs in the Wilderness» in Part IV. Could you have guessed what the subject of this text is from its title?
(Why not?)
. Does the title reveal whether the subject matter is highly specialized (and hence suitable for professionals)
or general (and hence suitable for a wider audience of laymen)?
d. Most titles include more than one concept (e.g., «Why Computers Can't be Poets»; «Crime and Poverty»;
«What is A Historical Fact?» (This includes the concept of «historicity», or of being historically authentic; and
the concept of being factual). What, if anything, does the title you are considering imply or state directly about
the relationship between the concepts it includes?
e. Does the title (or subtitle) reveal anything about the writer's thesis, or his point of view with regard to the
subject of the article?
UNIT 4. DIFFERENT WAYS OF PRESENTING INFORMATION
The writer of a text may decide to present part of the information graphically instead of (or as well as)
verbally. He may introduce diagrams, pictorial representations, or flowcharts to illustrate a sequence of
concepts or operations and the relationships between them. Diagrams and other schematic forms of presentation
can help to clarify complex verbal expositions. They also tend to be easier to remember.
Note how the following flowchart simplifies and clarifies the verbal exposition that follows it: