This essay focuses on metadiscourse, a name for elements of texts that convey meanings other than  those  that  are  primarily  referential.    The  essay  provides  some  theoretical  background  to the  study  of  metadiscourse,  briefly  reviews  a  taxonomy  of  metadiscourse,  and  explores  four reasons why the study of metadiscourse is interesting and important: (a) Such study shows how ...

the present study investigated the use of interactive metadiscourse resources (imrs) in terms of appropriacy during a process- based writing course by applying qualitative and exploratory methods. moreover, learners' perception was investigated to find out how confident they felt as they were writing and rewriting the drafts. 30 intermediate efl learners were chosen to participate in this study...

Background and purpose: Metadiscourse markers (MDMs) play a significant role in academic witting. They act as a bridge between writers and readers and make a text more understandable. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the use of MDMs in introduction, methods, results, and discussion (IMRaD) sections of English medical research articles (RAs) published in Iranian and American ISI jour...

Discourse markers improve both the quality and comprehension of a written text. This study aimed at investigating the effect of explicit and implicit instruction of formal meta-discourse markers on writ- ing skills. The quantitative data were collected from 90 upper-intermediate students at Shiraz Univer- sity Language Center. Two experimental groups went through an instruction, while the contr...

يستخدم الكتاب الأكاديميون مصطلح "الخطاب الشارح" في كتاباتهم لإقناع جمهورهم من خلال قيادتهم وإشراكهم النص كل مستويي الخطاب الشارح ، أي المستويات التوجيهية والتفاعلية. تسعى الدراسة الحالية جاهدة للتحقيق المستوى التوجيهي لادوات الرواية الأصلية "الحرف القرمزي". اضافة الى ذلك تم اختيار عشر عينات كبيانات ليتم تحليلها. تهدف إلى التحقق تكرارات ووظيفة اداة التوجيهي. ولتحقيق الأهداف يتم استخدام ثلاث فرضي...

The present study looks into the variations in frequencies and pragmatic functions of metadiscourse markers known as boosters, particular, with regard to their verb forms. Three corpora have been compiled this end, covering fields engineering, medicine linguistics. were manually annotated for markers, boosters included, by a group annotators. A predetermined list was used annotation, but throug...