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The paper argues that it is necessary to teach social scientists `data analysis' rather than `statistics'. Instruction in statistical principles needs to be closely integrated with the use of appropriate software packages and secondary data sets. It is also suggested that a discussion of interval level techniques such as correlation and regression should precede the introduction of the supposedly simpler technique of cross tabulation. The merits of intensive short course module teaching are also briefly examined.

Dr. Vertinsky is currently in Colombia—engaged in a study exploring the possibility of building a simulation model of the Colombian economy as an experiment in "total society model building." The study is funded by the Council for Intersocietal Study at Northwestern University. Dr. Vertinsky is on the faculty of Northwestern's School of Management.

From the Rice Thresher Archive, a collection of newspaper articles published in the student newspaper for Rice University. Genre: News

This book explores the processes and practices of the securitization and de-securitization of European infrastructures and how political institutions interact with security and insecurity. Expert contributors address distinct areas, from border politics and biosecurity to health governance and law and border control enforcement, to examine the various ways in which infrastructures are envisioned, designed, negotiated and built. They explore how 'infrastructuring' contributes to emergent forms of European identity, integration, and statehood. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Science and Technology Studies, Political Sociology, Critical Security Studies, International Relations, European Integration Studies, Infrastructure Studies, or Critical Border and Migration Studies. The Introduction and the Afterword of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

The study of genre has recently attracted the interest of scholars from various disciplines. This ‎interest comes from learning how individuals use language to comprehend and respond to ‎communicative situations and how these uses develop over time. This research paper deals with the analysis of two speeches by Barack Obama and Donald Trump at the UN general assembly following Bhatia's (1993) model of genre analysis. This paper aims to investigate the cognitive structuring of political speeches so as to examine the ‎typical strategies politicians choose to convey their communicative purposes and uncover the ‎linguistic realizations of moves and strategies‎.It is argued that there are certain conventions governing the political speeches at the UN generally assembly making it a special political sub-genre by its own. The analysis shows that both presidents are adherent to this genre-structuring to serve their political agenda. Furthermore, it is revealed that both speakers utilize the same strategies for the argumentative ‎move. Each strategy is chosen based on the communicative goals of the two speakers. ‎It is also revealed that through carrying out genre analysis, there will be a clearer view of the political ends, and the underlined image of America as the superhero of the world.