Although sometimes considered to act only as a means of recognizing debts, acknowledgments give the opportunity for writers to display a self-conscious and reflective representation of self. Following this assumption and to reveal some of the ways this is achieved, a corpus of 80 textbook acknowledgments in the field of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics were analyzed in order to show what “se...

the notion of genre has received a great deal of attention both in discourse analytic studies as well as in the field of esp/eap course design. the present paper has attempted to use genre analysis to account for the rhetorical features of research article introductions written by iranian academics in two disciplinary fields of education and economics. the corpus comprised 40 research article i...

Task difficulty across different macro-genres continues to remain among less attended areas in second language development studies. This study examined the correlation between task difficulty across the descriptive, narrative, argumentative, and expository macro-genres. The three components of task difficulty (i.e., code complexity, cognitive complexity, and communicative stress) were also comp...

Python 3 Object Oriented Programming is writen by Dusty Phillips in English language. Release on 2010-07-26, this book has 404 page count that contain essential information with easy reading structure. The book was publish by Packt Publishing, it is one of best programming book genre that gave you everything love about reading. You can find Python 3 Object Oriented Programming book with ISBN 97...

We report the results of a systematic study of the feasibility of automatically classifying documents by genre using adjectives and adverbs as indicators of affective language. In addition to the class of adjectives and adverbs, we focus on two specific subsets of adjectives and adverbs: (1) trait adjectives, used by psychologists to assess human personality traits, and (2) speaker-oriented adv...

This paper presents the design of a discourse generator that plans the content and organization of lay-oriented genetic counseling documents containing arguments, and an experiment to evaluate the arguments. Due to the separation of domain, argument, and genre-specific concerns and the methodology used for acquiring a domain model, this approach should be applicable to argument generation in ot...

Debate is a genre that has gained popularity due to its educational value on different levels of the education system. The essential advantage using debate as an tool it prepares students participate in public outside classroom environment. available models teaching how are rules-oriented (showing rules conduct valid debate) or argument-oriented (teaching balance between affirmative argumentati...

This paper presents an approach for providing terminology Web services for controlled vocabulary terms. Services are implemented within a service oriented framework. A set of experimental services for genre vocabularies is provided through the MS Office Research pane, a built-in feature of Internet Explorer (IE) when users have loaded MS Office 2003. Web browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox and Op...

An interactive information retrieval system that provides different types of summaries of retrieved documents according to each user’s information needs can be effective for understanding the contents. The purpose of this study is to build a multi-document summarizer to produce summaries according to such viewpoints. As an exploratory stage of investigation, we examined the effectiveness of gen...