this study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of efl students in iran. the information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which was started from ‘setting the context’ and ‘deconstruction’ of prototype information report genre, and continued with ‘joint construction’, ‘independent construction’, and final...

This study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of EFL students in Iran. The information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which was started from ‘setting the context’ and ‘deconstruction’ of prototype information report genre, and continued with ‘joint construction’, ‘independent construction’, and final...

As the demand for multimedia grows, the development of information retrieval systems including information about music is of increasing concern. Radio stations and music TV channels hold archives of millions of music tapes. Gigabytes of music files are also spread over the web. To automate searching and organizing the music files based on their genre is a challenging task. In this report, we pr...

Musical obsessions are rare in both clinical practice and literature. A case is presented of a musical obsession which had the additional unique characteristics of acute onset, marked severity, and occurrence as an isolated symptom.

In this paper, we report on the task of annotating the logical structure in a corpus of information leaaets. We discuss some problems for identifying this structure in that particular genre. We argue that there is a need to understand better the communicative functions of layout in that genre.

In this paper, we report on the task of annotating the logical structure in a corpus of information leaflets. We discuss some problems for identifying this structure in that particular genre. We argue that there is a need to understand better the communicative functions of layout in that genre.

In this paper, we report on the task of annotating the logical structure in a corpus of information leaflets. We discuss some problems for identifying this structure in that particular genre. We argue that there is a need to understand better the communicative functions of layout in that genre.

Cruickshank and Collins [2] ‘Advancing Leadership in Sport: Time to Take Off the Blinkers?’ has created something of a furore around the effectiveness and suitability of dark leadership traits and behaviours. This paper attempts to clarify some of the conceptual issues discussed within their paper, while also redressing a number of literary misrepresentations. Finally, the potential limitations...

While data encryption is an effective means of keeping data private it does not conceal the presence of ‘hidden’ information, rather it serves as an indicator that such data is present. Concealing information and hiding the fact that information is hidden are both desirable traits of a confidential data exchange, especially if that exchange takes place across a public network such as the Intern...

Introduction: We report on one phase of a project whose aim is to discover whether and how identifying the genres of digital documents helps in a variety of information-seeking tasks (Crowston & Kwa nik, 200507). The project has three phases: I. Harvesting and identifying a test-set of webpages from journalists, teachers, and engineers, three groups that share a discourse community in which a s...