The purpose of the present study was to investigate the use of personal and impersonal metadiscourse (MD) by Persian- and English-speaking writers in academic writing. For this purpose, 80 abstracts were selected (40 written by Persian-speaking writers and 40 by English-speaking ones) and analyzed. These abstracts were selected from endocrinology and metabolism journals published during 2010 to...

introduction: commitment to abstracting standards has a very significant role in information retrieval. the present research aimed to evaluate the rate of commitment to iso 214 standards among the persian abstracts of approved research projects at school of health management and medical informatics, isfahan university of medical sciences, isfahan, iran.    methods: this descriptive study used a...

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. ...

In any discourse domain, certain chunks are particularly frequent and deserve attention by the novice to be initiated and by the expert to maintain a sense of community. To make a relevant contribution to the awareness about applied linguistics texts and discourse, this study attempted to develop lists of lexical chunks frequently used in the abstracts of applied linguistics journals. The abstr...

This paper presents how we constructed a tagged E-J parallel corpus of sample abstracts, which is the core language resource for our English abstract writing tool, the “Abstract Helper.” This writing tool is aimed at helping Japanese software engineers be more productive in writing by providing them with good models of English abstracts. We collected 539 English abstracts from technical journal...

This paper introduces a method for computational analysis of move structures in abstracts of research articles. In our approach, sentences in a given abstract are analyzed and labeled with a specific move in light of various rhetorical functions. The method involves automatically gathering a large number of abstracts from the Web and building a language model of abstract moves. We also present ...