Prescriptive

Prescriptive rules have the effect of infantilising staff, and make it harder for them to adapt to different situations.

Open door Meg Pickard 2010

"Prescriptive means you tell people exactly what they have to do," said Victor Gilinsky, a former NRC commissioner and occasional critic of NRC oversight.

The Center for Public Integrity: Nuclear miscalculation: Why regulators miss power plant threats from quakes and storms The Center for Public Integrity 2011

Prescriptive information (instruction) can only be explained by algorithmic programming.

Aiguy's Computer 2008

Prescriptive analysis may very well apply to patterns of behavior, but fiction is an altogether different measure.

Jonah Lehrer: A Malcolm Gladwell for the Mind : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2010

Prescriptive grammarians would insist on my correspondent's sentence being rewritten as something like There will be an intermission after each act - ignoring the problem that there is no intermission after the last act.

On between each DC 2009

Prescriptive Music: Prescriptive Music Private Label Program is an affordable way to help build sales at spas.

The 2007 Spa & Resort/Medical Spa Expo Had it All 2007

Prescriptive corollary: Serial commas will be required by law.

June 4th, 2007 2007

Prescriptive means that the guidelines are setting out the way things should be.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

Prescriptive means that the guidelines are setting out the way things should be.

The Dichotomy of Style 2009

“Androcentrism in Prescriptive Grammar: Singular ‘they’, Sex-indefinite ‘he’, and ‘he or she’”, Language in Society, 1975.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Spurious Grammatical “Rules” of Every Sort Are My Abhorrence 2009