Popular Science Articles for Chemistry Teaching

How Do Scientists Reach Their Target Audience? Academic and Popular Science Articles in Nutrition

The aim of the current study was to investigate frequencies of interactional metadiscourse markers in English academic research and popular science articles in nutrition. A total of 60 English articles published in three popular databases and four academic journals were analyzed for interactional metadiscourse markers, including hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagement markers and self-me...

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Metadiscourse strategies in Persian research articles; Implications for teaching writing English articles

In order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the Persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of Iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization. Metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one...

Personalized recommendation of popular blog articles for mobile applications

Weblogs have emerged as a new communication and publication medium on the Internet for diffusing the latest useful information. Providing value-added mobile services, such as blog articles, is increasingly important to attract mobile users to mobile commerce, in order to benefit from the proliferation and convenience of using mobile devices to receive information any time and anywhere. However,...

Recommender Ensembles for News Articles based on Most-Popular Strategies

With the change from classical paper-based to online representations of newspapers publishers are able to provide adaptive recommender services supporting users in finding the relevant articles in the huge amount of published news. Since most traditional recommender approaches are tailored to scenarios characterized by static sets of items and exactly identifiable users, these approaches cannot...