Academic family physicians often struggle trying to write for publication. While there are many prolific writers in family medicine, others find writing to be a challenging task. This not only affects their applications for promotion and tenure, but has much broader implications for the discipline of family medicine. Family physicians at our institution, Memorial University of Newfoundland in S...

A lthough sound authorship of biomedical journal articles relies on personal and professional integrity and accountability, recent controversies concerning ghostwriting and guest authorship have shown that this approach has limitations. Ghostwriting and guest authorship are often linked to academic-industry collaborations. Typically, industrysponsored professional writers prepare complete artic...

The power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van Dijk 1996). This potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. The major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...

literary commitment is an imported concept from western literary review which has found great place among arab scholars and critics in the last decades, because the critical, political, economic and cultural conditions of arab world and the domination of cruelty and exploitation caused the writers and poets to accompany the revolution of innocent countries. farouq jowaida, an egypt poet, is one...

Baynes is an exponent of Jung. Jung expounds wholeness. This wholeness can be attained by finding the Self. This is the central theme of the papers in this book, and will command general agreement amongst thinking people, especially in the present world confusion and disharmony, where the need for a synthetic principle by which unity can be restored is urgent. That such a synthetic principle ex...

abstract the ancient history and culture of iran has been a main field of research for many writers in the contemporary times. among these writers is hushang golshiri. in many of his works, in fifth innocent and shazdeh ehtejab (prince ehtejab) in particular, he has paid great attention to history. the main question of the present study is to discuss how golshiri has dealt with story and myth i...

the non-linear order of revelations is often considered by many scholars to signify lack of coherence, disunity, and fragmentariness. it seems that 'coherence' and the related terms have veiled a significant linguistic feature of the qur’an, namely, the non-linear nature of revelations, which might be used to make a distinction between ordinary and quranic discourse. we will argue that to unvei...