There art some library software systems available for large-scale libraries.in the market. For instance. MfNISIS [IDRC75] on HP3000, ATLAS [DRA76] on Vax8800, URICA [AWA78] on Microdata and VTLS [HP751 on HP3000. We introduce a small-scale library -circulation system, called ILRCS (Interactive Library Resources Circulation System). It has been designed and implemented on tht V~X/VMS 11-785 mini...

Metadiscourse is the language writers use to guide their readers through texts and organise arguments. This can take form of phrases, for example, ‘this essay will discuss’, or ‘in conclusion’, individual words such as ‘firstly’ ‘therefore’. study aims determine how undergraduate students develop metadiscourse over first two years at a UK university investigate whether related grade that text r...

This paper describes metaTED – a freely available corpus of metadiscursive acts in spoken language collected via crowdsourcing. Metadiscursive acts were annotated on a set of 180 randomly chosen TED talks in English, spanning over different speakers and topics. The taxonomy used for annotation is composed of 16 categories, adapted from Ädel (2010). This adaptation takes into account both the ma...

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...

This research explores the ability of grade 2 students to engage in productive discussion about the state of their knowledge building using group-level feedback tools to support their metadiscourse. Two aspects of knowledge work were common to the comparison and experimental classes: BKnowledge Building talk^ (KB talk) involving teacher-student discussions and the use of Knowledge Forum, an onl...