Perhaps it is just as well that most medical practitioners are neither famous nor of any real interest to general public. Professional writers, poor souls, ?re not spared the risks of fame. This book by Geoffrey Grigson spells out their problems. Fortunately none of us is likely to be the target (or S|Jbject) of such public critical appraisal. A tactfully Phrased obituary notice in the medical ...

subject. Dr. Hutchison has largely revised his article on diebetics, and includes the important experiments of Professor Chittenden on the excess consumption of proteids, which will probably considerably modify our views on the amount of proteid which the body requires daily, and cause us to revise the figures which for years past we have been content to use, following Voits' experiments. The a...

To study the structure of Iranian chemistry research, we identified 43 Iranian and international chemists who were highly cited in 7,682 Iranian chemistry publications (defined as an article with at least one Iranian author address) indexed in Science Citation Index (SciSearch) between 1990 and 2006, inclusive. We collected cocitation data for these authors from the entire SciSearch file (Dialo...

Hedging academic claims has been recognized as one of integral pragmatic features of academic writing in which most EFL academic writers seem to face substantial problems. Explicit instruction has been proposed by some scholars as an effective approach to make EFL writers aware of the importance, different forms, and pragmatic functions of hedging devices some of which are polysemous and polypr...

In order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the Persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of Iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization. Metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one...

This study aims to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of verbs used in the introduction section of Applied Linguistics research articles published in Iranian and international journals. A corpus of 20 research article introductions (10 from each journal) was used. The corpus was analysed for the syntactic features (tense, aspect and voice) and semantic meaning of verbs. The finding...

Sir, Michelangelo Merisi was born in September 1571 in Caravaggio, near Milan and was always known by the name of his hometown. Caravaggio moved to Rome in the early 1590s. His paintings were characterized by their extreme realism and dramatic contrasts of light and shade. Several works were realized as religious works commissioned by important exponents of clergy (BBC, 2017). In this group of ...

This research challenges prevailing popular ideas about the socalled "informal sector" and questions the very significance of the formal/informal classification. It also suggests an alternative analytical framework which stresses the need to understand the connections between a broad economic and political context and a set of micro socioeconomic arrangements involved in the work arena. In the ...