BACKGROUND Due to language limitations, the abstract of journal article may be the only way for people of non-Chinese speaking countries to know about trials in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). However, little is known about the reporting quality of these trial abstracts. Our study is to assess the reporting quality of abstracts of randomized controlled trials (RCT) published in four leading...

Following Swales’ (1981) definition of genre analysis many scholars have attempted to characterize good academic writing; however, this can be difficult and worrying for non-native writers. Since a well-written abstract encourages readers more effectively, the present study intended to find differences in the rhetorical structures of abstracts by TEFL students from the University of Tehran (UT)...

Abstract This study focuses on realizations and discourse functions of the organizational linkers in the writing of research article abstracts from four disciplines. To this end, 120 research article abstracts from four disciplines namely, Applied Linguistics, Economics, Agriculture, and Applied Physics (30 from each discipline) were selected. All research article abstracts were extracted from ...

s of papers of four academic societies, namely Japan Architecture Society (JAS), Institute of Electric Engineering (IEE), Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineering (IECE), and Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), published in Japan. Numbers of abstracts of each of these corpora are shown in Table 1. Parts of these bilingual corpora are parallel. The percentages of parall...

In this paper, we present a Web-based English abstract writing tool, the “BEAR (Building English Abstracts by Ricoh).” This English writing tool is aimed at helping Japanese software engineers improve the organization of their writing by enabling them to select a rhetorical template of the target abstract and to build up component sentences while having access to good-quality sample sentences. ...

s will be reviewed and assigned to appropriate sessions. Authors will be notified regarding abstract acceptance. Abstracts will be selected for Poster Presentation and a limited number of abstracts will be scheduled for Oral Presentation. Authors will be notified of the method of presentation. The first author is expected to attend the Symposium and present the poster or oral presentation. The ...

the significance of research article (ra) abstract as a key academic genre has recently motivated analysts to focus on this neglected area. considering a summary function for abstracts, most genre researchers have adopted the conventionally proposed introduction- method- results- discussion (or conclusion) (imrd) model for analysis. however, the problems reported, especially for results and dis...

Abstract This study focuses on realizations and discourse functions of the organizational linkers in the writing of research article abstracts from four disciplines. To this end, 120 research article abstracts from four disciplines namely, Applied Linguistics, Economics, Agriculture, and Applied Physics (30 from each discipline) were selected. All research article abstracts were extracted from ...