... of descriptive writing must fall. Most de-scriptions involve both, in varying degrees. Generally, how-ever, one mode will dominate and fix the focus. In scientificand legal writing, for instance, ... of most thesauri are revealed in the direc-tions given in one edition of Roget:Turning to No. 86 6 (the sense required) we read through the variedlist of synonyms and select the most appropriate ... (LinnetBooks, 1977), or A Guide to Library Research Methods, byThomas Mann (Oxford University Press, 1 987 ).Here we are interested only in one kind of specialdictionary: the thesaurus or dictionary...