In this autobiographical essay, introduced by Ernst Wolff, Paulin Hountonji gives an account of his relation to Paul Ricœur. A sketch own academic development and experience the Parisian philosophy milieu in 1960s serves as background for chosing Ricœur doctoral supervisor. The essay makes plain proximities between Hountondji (especially study Husserl), but identifies also occasional missed enc...

The essay examines the common practice of relying on contentoblivious quantitative measures for the evaluation of the quality of academic research. It starts with a definition of these measures, while distinguishing the raw bibliographic data and the way it is processed (to obtain a numerical value). It exposes the hidden decisions that determine which pieces of data are used and how they are p...

1506 Journal of Chemical Education • Vol. 77 No. 11 November 2000 • JChemEd.chem.wisc.edu Life for today’s academic scientist can include competitive funding, research agendas driven by predicting the “hot” area of investigation, and the accumulation of students, papers, and citations as a measure of scholarly value. Djerassi has characterized the “tribal culture of research scientists” as an “...

OBJECTIVE To compare the academic performance of male and female medical students in Pharmacology examinations. METHODS The comparative study was conducted at Rehman Medical College, Peshawar, Pakistan, from March to August 2015. For evaluating the students' academic performance, male and female students of academic sessions 2013-14 and 2014-15 were divided into 4 groups. Group 1: < 50% marks...

L2 language socialization asks how learners come to gain the ability to write appropriately and sufficiently in an institutional academic community of practice. In the same line, this study focuses on the process of socialization of an Iranian English L2 essay writing class in the context of higher education. The theoretical backgrounds rely on the socialization and Vygotsky's sociocult...

Academic essays entail taking a stance on the truth value of propositions. Epistemic adverbs deal with the speaker's assessment of the truth value of propositions. Employing a corpus-based approach with descriptive statistics and qualitative description, this study explored the use of epistemic stance adverbs in academic essays written by native English speakers and Iranian EFL learners. Follow...

Ukrainian undergraduate students face challenges in demonstrating high-level proficiency most of their academic writing. As an integral part achievement, writing skills are essential for success at the various levels students’ future career paths. Thus, literacy has raised considerable attention to teaching English as a second language. This study explores competence level 90 first-year Compute...

Writing has been increasingly regarded by the testers of language tests as an important indicator to assess the language skill of testees. As such tests become more and more popular and the number of testees becomes larger, it is a huge task to score so many essays by raters. So far, many methods have been used to solve this problem and the traditional method is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). ...