Novice academic writers, particularly Iranian graduate students (IGSs), upon entering an academic community, are hypothesized to face probable difficulties in practicing rhetorical expectations set by the experienced (EXP) members, hence, not being able to write in a way acceptable to these professionals. To explore the probable rhetorical distance between them, this study investigated the empl...

A Computational grid is highly useful computing infrastructure that enables effective access of resources to perform high performance computing wherein job management, efficient resource utilization are key grid service issues. To make grid environment greatly useful, an optimized scheduling system is essential as computational grid is often heterogeneous with complex environment. This complexi...

Metadiscourse is essential in creating and organizing persuasive discourse, taking into account the norms expectations of parties involved. The purpose this study to explore use interactional (interpersonal) metadiscourse markers dentistry case reports, analyze their functions within text, evaluate effectiveness establishing writer's credibility authority managing textual interactions. research...

OBJECTIVES To obtain medical students' evaluation of the quality of undergraduate radiology teaching received, preferred teaching methods and resources. This is a follow-up project to an earlier study of junior doctors who felt that radiology teaching left them ill prepared for medical practice. METHODS A questionnaire to third and fifth year medical students undertaking clinical rotations at...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the use of personal and impersonal metadiscourse (md) by persian- and english-speaking writers in academic writing. for this purpose, 80 abstracts were selected (40 written by persian-speaking writers and 40 by english-speaking ones) and analyzed. these abstracts were selected from endocrinology and metabolism journals published during 2010 to...

The present study attempted the relative effect of explicit teaching of textual metadiscourse markers on ESAP reading comprehension performance of Iranian university students through an awareness raising experiment. A sixty-item multiple choice ESAP reading comprehension test of accounting was developed and validated to act as the pre-test and post-test. The test included items for assessing sp...

With regard to the relationship between the use of modality and readability levels oftexts, 2 opposing views have been raised. The first view endorses direct positiverelationship between modality and readability in the sense that the use of modalityincreases textual understandability. The second view is that the use of modality leadsto an increase in the number of words, resulting in readabilit...