If you take an introduction to psychology course in the U.S., it is highly likely that the field will be defined in one of three ways. The most common definition of psychology is that it is the ...
So let’s say that our relatively-average psychologist has been tasked with designing a college-level introduction to psychology course. This course will be the first time many of the students are ...
At the heart of every academic discipline, there is a focal subject. In psychology, that focal subject is human beings and behavior. Now, surely I’m biased, but I can’t imagine many subjects more ...
What exactly is the difference between "introduction to" and "introduction of"? For example: should it be "Introduction to the problem" or "Introduction of the problem"?
Introduction into is non-standard in Britain and (as far as I know) most of the US when used in a figurative sense (i.e. in the sense of making acquaintance with). Of course, one can introduce one physical object into another, or an idea into a conversation or intellectual construct: Jorge introduced the stick of the firework into the neck of the milk bottle. Hegel introduced the notion of a ...
44 Introduction: a preliminary part, as of a book, musical composition, or the like, leading up to the main part. (Dictionary.com)
OK, substitute ‘as well as’. McArthur’s point is similar to that in ‘Linguistics: An Introduction’ by Radford and others: ‘Sociolinguistic research has demonstrated that the speech of most people is, at least in some respects, variable, combining, for example, both standard and non-standard sounds, words or grammatical structures.’