one of the challenges of academic writing is the creation of a structurally and communicatively well-organized and coherent text. metadiscourse enables authors of journal articles to achieve this goal by raising the writers‘ awareness about discourse features which can contribute to a better academic content production. also, l1 background has always been a hot topic in applied linguistics and ...

Although ambiguity in written, oral, and visual communication is inevitably present across all human societies cultures, variation among these cultures occurs the sociocultural causes of its existence. This study helps formulate a conceptual framework that enables enrichment knowledge about this variation. It takes first step by highlighting Arab-specific reasons behind academic writings humani...

The Low Achiever’s writing is frequently categorized as the low coherent text due to quality of their writings based on rubric used at school. Hence, focus in this study analyze Types Theme and Thematic Progression patterns found Descriptive Writings with descriptive-qualitative research design. objective observe coherency achiever’s analysis Progression. steps are selecting two descriptive tex...

The field of ELT is constantly witnessing the introduction of new instructional approaches: one such perhaps recent initiative is critical discourse analysis (CDA). Accordingly, the present study was an attempt to investigate the impact of CDA instruction on Iranian EFL learners’ descriptive and argumentative writing ability. To fulfill the aforementioned purpose, a sample TOEFL was primarily p...

research article (ra) genre has been a significant area of research in academic writing over past decades. however, authors’ identity in ras has not received much attention, especially in soft sciences like applied linguistics. this paper reports a corpus analysis of iranian writers’ authorial presence markers in ras in the field of applied linguistics. the corpus comprised 30 ras (200,000 word...

Purpose This research work informs about plagiarism and the consequences of anti-plagiarism services such as Turnitin.com, iThenticate, and PlagiarismDetect.com, in detecting the most recent cheatings in academic and other writings. Design/methodology/approach The most important approach is plagiarism prevention and finding proper solutions for detecting more complex kinds of plagiarisms throug...