Prescriptionist

Much of the disagreement between the prescriptionist and descriptionist views turns on the question of compensation among generations.

Educators often come into the profession with a certain view of language that is more prescriptionist in nature (Edwards, 1982; Taylor, 1983; Trudgill, 1975; Williams, 1976).

Teaching the English language may be their bread and butter, but they are unable to enforce the notion of a 'standard prescriptionist English.'

In a fine essay, Terry Eagleton has argued that rights, for a prescriptionist like Burke, are validated by 'the recounting of a certain narrative'.

When there are many speakers of a language around, even the staunchest prescriptionist would agree that the manner of spelling is less vital to the perpetuation of the language.

But that would depend on us being a usagist rather than a prescriptionist with respect to language.

The practical prescriptionist is an expert at compatibility, for his daily work brings him continually face to face with the problems of compatibility and incompatibility; and he usually knows more Meteria Medica (not Therapeutics) than all the physicians in his town.

In the meantime the prescriptionist transfers data from the doctor's prescription to the computer. The computer prices the drug and writes out a label while the prescriptionist collects the prescribed drug.

He started to think of himself as being like "a prescriptionist." "I had to explain to people who didn't know enough about whether they should take aspirin or Anacin," and people would do anything the "guy in the white coat" -- the stockbroker-- told them to do.

He has served as a prescriptionist to the leading pharmacists of the old country, and been employed in many of our American cities.

In North Carolina, as throughout the Southern Region, all timber management prescriptions are prepared by a certified compartment prescriptionist, a forester, who has completed formal training and has demonstrated proficiency in on-the-job application of standard silvicultural practices.

The exercise prescriptionist must be aware of these various causes when assessing posture.

Experience as an educational prescriptionist or in any other teaching field is not considered qualifying experience.