A political literary discourse is important at this moment, given the political upheavals that have engulfed African countries. The writer is often seen as an emancipator of the masses therefore, the imaginative writer can, through his work, offer critical appraisal of existing political situations in order to mould and redirect the actions of society, its belief and values. Literature can ther...

Despite a growing literature on postmodernism in nursing and other healthcare disciplines, it continues to be dogged by mistrust, misunderstanding and outright hostility. Presenting the philosophy of postmodernism is a particularly difficult task, and most attempts fall into one of two traps: either the writer is a well-read and committed postmodernist in which case the writing tends to make to...

although america claims to be the savior of the world and itsinvasions of other nations have been justified as attempts to maintain peaceand security, america’s international interventions have not always beenwithout expansionist aims. america considers itself a messianic force on theearth. this moral aloofness has served as a justification for imperialistprojects. in the light of post-colonial...

The purpose of this study aims at helping students define plagiarism by using a discourse analysis approach within the text of a model paper for advanced students interested in writing research papers. Inexperienced researchers are often tempted to commit several types of plagiarism across disciplines in academia. These intentional and unintentional patterns of plagiarism, which have something ...

This paper discusses the conceptual design of Digital Learning Ecosystems, which, as we argue, are becoming the foundation of nextgeneration Technology-Enhanced Learning systems (TEL systems). We illustrate our argument by a case study on design and development of a Dippler ecosystem. First, the framework for identifying the generations of TEL systems is described and expectations towards next ...

Academic writing is typically encoded by relatively negotiable and arguable resources indicating the potentially dialogistic nature of its discourse community, and has been the area of investigation from different perspectives. One of these perspectives has been the way that determines dialogistic resources in the rhetorical formation of textbooks. Thus, this study is conducted to explore and e...

Our purpose in this research is to quantitatively analyse how the communication of managerial knowledge realised articles written by experienced writers for publication and those produced graduate students as a course grade requirement. Specifically, we look at ways these construct their authorial identities (textually conveyed ‘voice’). To do so, combine Hyland’s (2008) interactional model voi...

Abstract Interdiscursivity of professional practice has gained increasing attention in nascent literature on discourse, yet its measurement is under-investigated. The present article, with a highlight the writer identities proposed stylometric approach to interdiscursivity practice. method successfully demystified three MD&A discourse: Specialists public relations practice, auditors regulat...

Language is usually studied and analysed from different disciplines generally on the premise that it constitutes a form of communication which pursues a specific objective. The discourse, in that sense, can be understood as a text which is constructed to express such objective. When a discourse is created, its production is related to some textual genre, usually connected with some pragmatic fe...

In the light of international interest in teachers’ literate identities and practices, this paper addresses the under-researched area of teachers’ writing identities. It examines the multimodal interactive discursive practices at play in the writing classroom of a teacher in the UK who, in order to support the pupils, consciously positions herself as a writer in this context; seeking to model e...