*Correspondence: Antonio F. Miguel, Department of Physics, School of Sciences and Technology, University of Évora, Rua Romao Ramalho 59, 7000-671 Évora, Portugal e-mail: [email protected] The occurrence of configuration (design, shape, structure, rhythm) is a universal phenomenon that occurs in every flow system. Dendritic configuration (or tree-shaped configurations) is ubiquitous in nature and li...

This study seeks to explore five 6 th grade EFL learners' major writing problems by analyzing the nature and distribution of their writing errors and it also investigates factors that cause errors in their writing in English through email communication. This study examined EFL learners’ writing samples and followed taxonomy: grammatical, lexical, semantic, mechanics, and word order types of err...

As far as the communicative nature of writing is concerned, cohesion is regarded as an essential textual component both in creating organized texts and rendering the content comprehensible to the reader. Many researchers have explored the connection between the use of cohesive devices (CDs) and the quality of the writing. To gain more insight into this area, this study reviewed some studies foc...

Many blogs are written by people with no formal training in public writing; this could suggest a low level of editing and general correctness. A quantitative analysis of misspellings, however, shows that in their orthography Italian blogs are as well revised as conventional Italian newspaper texts. On the other hand, their editing is more careful than the editing of the average of Italian web p...

Gardening as an activity characterised by attentiveness to nature and willingness adapt care for it, the idea of gardening planet are attracting growing interest in context debates on Anthropocene. Garden writing exists forms ranging from autobiographically framed essays describing plants their prose fiction even poetry. This article is concerned with its contribution reimagining human/nature r...

Over the past decade, our research teams have been using data mining techniques primarily for the purpose of analyzing text and writing corpora. These analyses emerged within three projects, Coh-Metrix, iSTART, and the Writing-Pal. CohMetrix is a text analysis tool that provides hundreds of linguistic and semantic indices on text. Within the context of the Coh-Metrix project, we have analyzed t...

Individuals with dissociative identity disorder (DID) have been known to show varied skills and talents as they change from one dissociative state to another. For example, case reports have described people who have changed their handedness or have spoken foreign languages during their dissociative states. During an interview with a patient with DID, a surprising talent emerged when she wrote a...

Abstract It has become customary to introduce students to scientific writing through submitting manuscripts from Master’s projects to workshops and conferences. Some plausible reasons for teachers to encourage writing are for disseminating project outcome, for populating ones publication list, and not least for balancing research and teaching, which otherwise is problematic [2]. When students c...

This developmental paper uses the travel writing genre to study the affordances of social networking sites (SNS) from an age perspective. It provides a travel journey through the city of Facebook and in doing so identifies that affordances are found at two intertwined layers, the global and the local. Further, it shows that Facebook affords the creation of multiple new locales of this nature, w...