This study explores 19 Taiwanese students’ writing in weekly online forum posts and traditional essays. Results drawn from discourse analysis of students’ writing in both types of writing tasks showed that the semesterlong online writing accompanied by explicit instruction on essays and basic academic writing conventions appeared to help raise EFL students’ consciousness of register in the two ...

Afferent dysgraphia is an acquired writing deficit characterized by deletions and duplications of letters and strokes. The commonly accepted interpretation states that afferent dysgraphia is associated with three main clinical features: production of spatial writing errors; the presence of left unilateral neglect; and no deterioration in performance when writing blindfolded. In order to test wh...

This research analyzed Saudi undergraduate students’ writing before and after individual face-to-face feedback. The intervention was in the nature of written feedback on EFL students' paragraph writing. participants were 23 students exposed to a pre post-test across six criteria that targeted evaluate their with corrective from teacher. one semester long. study reported plays an important role ...

Abstract English argumentative writing is difficult in second language for ESL students. Although there has been a lot of research on writings, empirical focusing claims very scarce. Based the Toulmin model, this paper studied relationship between and performance. 117 time-limited writings were collected at top university Northeast China. The qualifiers form words, participle sentence (QW, QP, ...

Arnau de Vilanova, one of the most important physicians of the Latin Middle Ages, was familiar with the vast majority of Aristotle's works that had been translated into Latin. He used a wide range of them, such as the Organon--the introductory books on logic - and the natural philosophical books, which cover a different branches of knowledge. He used Aristotle as an authority, trying to reconci...

Adriane Fugh-Berman examines documents unsealed in recent litigation to investigate how pharmaceutical companies promoted hormone therapy drugs, including the use of medical writing companies to produce ghostwritten manuscripts and place them into medical journals.

Passivization is the grammatical process in which structures of whole sentence, and specifically verb phrase, change. This one main syntactic needs any academic writing. Therefore, English learner to know enough about it by end undergraduate studies. paper, being an empirical one, tests Kurdish learners’ awareness providing instrument. The data scope study are sentences from Kurdish. A cohort e...

Style is an integral component of a sentence indicated by the choice words person makes. Different people have different ways expressing themselves; however, they adjust their speaking and writing style to social context, audience, interlocutor, or formality occasion. Text transfer defined as task adapting and/or changing stylistic manner in which written, while preserving meaning original sent...

Abstract Consider the opening sentence of Tolkien’s The Hobbit : (1) In a hole in ground there lived hobbit. By writing this sentence, Tolkien is making fictional statement . There are two influential views nature such statements. On pretense view, discourse amounts to pretend assertions. Since author not really asserting, but merely pretending, as devoid illocutionary force altogether. contras...

This study aimed to investigate whether cooperative learning approach is effective in improving writing skills of non-English majors China. The participants this are 305 ranging from freshmen sophomore Anhui Sanlian University. adopted the quantitative research method and used questionnaires collect data students' skills. results revealed that exerted a positive effect on terms mechanics, vocab...