moving in line with the postulation that metadiscourse (md) markers help transform a dry and tortuous piece of text into a coherent and reader-friendly one, the researchers in the current study attempted to investigate the effect different metadiscourse markers might have on iranian efl learners’ perception of written texts. to this end, 120 undergraduate english students were given three diffe...

The present study explored the rhetorical representation of authorial identity signaled by interactive/interactional metadiscourse strategies and integral/non-integral citation patterns in international and Iranian local research article discussion sections. The study also explored variation in metadiscourse and citation resources across three subdisciplines of Language Testing, English Languag...

Marius T.H. Meeus, Leon A.G. Oerlemans ECIS, Faculty of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Jerald Hage University of Maryland, Washington, USA Organization Studies 2001, 22/1 145-172 2001 EGOS 0170-8406/01 0022-0006 $3.00 This paper aims at developing a theoretical framework that explains levels of interactive learning. Interactive learning is defined as ...

A Computational grid is highly useful computing infrastructure that enables effective access of resources to perform high performance computing wherein job management, efficient resource utilization are key grid service issues. To make grid environment greatly useful, an optimized scheduling system is essential as computational grid is often heterogeneous with complex environment. This complexi...

OBJECTIVES To obtain medical students' evaluation of the quality of undergraduate radiology teaching received, preferred teaching methods and resources. This is a follow-up project to an earlier study of junior doctors who felt that radiology teaching left them ill prepared for medical practice. METHODS A questionnaire to third and fifth year medical students undertaking clinical rotations at...

The World Wide Web is an infrastructure to publish and retrieve information through web resources. It evolved from a static Web1.0 to a multimodal and interactive communication and information space which is used to collaboratively contribute and discuss web resources, which is better known as Web2.0. The evolution into a Semantic Web (Web3.0) proceeds. One of its remarkable advantages is the d...