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To be clear: theirs was neither strictly biographical criticism nor prescriptively moral criticism, and nothing they wrote was reducible to the childish formulations "only good men write good books" or "one must know a man's life to understand his work".

Style in Fiction 2009

One question asked them to assess where their organization is along the journey to an ideal state: an organization that has been "transformed by better ways to collect, analyze and be prescriptively guided by information."

Ten Data Points: Information And Analytics At Work Nina Kruschwitz 2011

Among the questions asked of both thought leaders interviewed and executive survey respondents was: Imagine an organization transformed by better ways to collect, analyze and be prescriptively guided by information.

10 Insights: A First Look At The New Intelligent Enterprise Survey Michael S. Hopkins 2011

“Anyone” is not prescriptively single, any more than other indefinite pronouns like “none.”

National Grammar Day 2009: Ten Common Grammar Myths, Debunked « Motivated Grammar 2009

While there is, undoubtedly, a predominance of Epic/Heroic Fantasy within the genre labelled as fantasy, my contention is simply that there is enough fiction within that genre employing narrative structures best labelled as Adventure, Mystery, Thriller or even Horror (and better described in terms of "thickening" or "estrangement") that to map this spectrum of narrative grammars to the genres is descriptively inaccurate even as a broad generalisation and prescriptively inequitous as an essentialist definition.

A Follow Up Hal Duncan 2008

While there is, undoubtedly, a predominance of Epic/Heroic Fantasy within the genre labelled as fantasy, my contention is simply that there is enough fiction within that genre employing narrative structures best labelled as Adventure, Mystery, Thriller or even Horror (and better described in terms of "thickening" or "estrangement") that to map this spectrum of narrative grammars to the genres is descriptively inaccurate even as a broad generalisation and prescriptively inequitous as an essentialist definition.

Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008

That's natural in a descriptive sense, but should it also apply prescriptively?

Philip N. Cohen: How Much Have You Got to Spend? 2010

This is precisely where a plethora of fiction which is conventionally labelled fantasy by readers, writers, agents, editors and publishers is wrongly excluded from the model in order for that model to function accurately (and prescriptively).

A Follow Up Hal Duncan 2008

As for teachers, Avalon's educators have been able to expand their skills in ways not possible at other schools where duties are more clearly defined and actions more prescriptively limited.

Inder Sidhu: Education Reform: Where Lower Pay and Reduced Job Security Have Produced Surprising Results Inder Sidhu 2010

As for teachers, Avalon's educators have been able to expand their skills in ways not possible at other schools where duties are more clearly defined and actions more prescriptively limited.

Inder Sidhu: Education Reform: Where Lower Teacher Pay and Reduced Job Security Have Produced Surprising Results Inder Sidhu 2010