Download or read book Medical Writing written by Minna Vihla and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using data from a new corpus of contemporary American medical texts, Vihl analyzes model expressions such as may, must, and possibly as they are used in medical English. She thinks that knowing how modal expressions are distributed and their pragmatic functions in the texts can help when teaching professional writing to non-native speakers, and clarify how language is institutionally situated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR