Using the whiteboard or chalkboard promotes collaboration between speaker and audience

McAllister's genre analysis of Doogie Howser, M.D. provides examples that illustrate his claims

a. that the teen hero now is likely to be the smartest, most technologically advanced and coolest character around. b. that the dedicated, older professional mentor remains a central character in medical/doctor genre series. c. that medical series still glorify the rugged individualist doctor who almost always saves the day and the patient. d. that teen protagonists are centrally concerned with sex. e. that parents of teens, even when they are well-intentioned and caring, are out of the teenage loop.

Cultures which tolerate ambiguity well and have flexible rules as the norm are

a. Uncertainty-accepting cultures b. Uncertainty-rejecting cultures c. Uncertain cultures d. None of the options available