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  2. Linguistic prescription - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic prescription is a part of a language standardization process. [20] The chief aim of linguistic prescription is to specify socially preferred language forms (either generally, as in Standard English, or in style and register) in a way that is easily taught and learned. [21]

  3. Citation impact - Wikipedia

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    Citation rates are heavily dependent on the discipline and the number of people working in that area. For instance, many more scientists work in neuroscience than in mathematics, and neuroscientists publish more papers than mathematicians, hence neuroscience papers are much more often cited than papers in mathematics.

  4. Text linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Text linguistics is a branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems.Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars.The application of text linguistics has, however, evolved from this approach to a point in which text is viewed in much broader terms that go beyond a mere extension of traditional grammar towards an entire text.

  5. Written language - Wikipedia

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    [25] [better source needed] Literacy enables additional ways for individuals to participate in civic life, including understanding news articles and political debates to navigating legal documents. [26] [better source needed] However, disparities in literacy rates and proficiency with written language can contribute to social inequalities ...

  6. Wikipedia:Citation overkill - Wikipedia

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    Either way, the principle is the same: Sources support notability based on what they say about the topic, not just the number of footnotes present. An article with just four or five really good sources is considered better referenced than an article that cites 500 bad ones.

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics - Wikipedia

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    However, the special Unicode characters, such as U+211D (plain text ℝ or math font ℝ) and its adjacent characters should be avoided at present, since these characters are not yet universally supported and may have an inconsistent appearance. Either bold or blackboard bold is acceptable in Wikipedia articles, but should be consistent within ...

  8. Language of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The language of mathematics or mathematical language is an extension of the natural language (for example English) that is used in mathematics and in science for expressing results (scientific laws, theorems, proofs, logical deductions, etc.) with concision, precision and unambiguity.

  9. Zipf's law - Wikipedia

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    In particular, the frequencies of the closed class of function words in English is better described with s lower than 1, while open-ended vocabulary growth with document size and corpus size require s greater than 1 for convergence of the Generalized Harmonic Series. [3] Well's War of the Worlds in plain text, in a book code, and in a Vigenère ...