This study attempted to establish an image of a science writer based on a synthesis of writing theory, models, and research literature on academic writing in science and other disciplines and to contrast this image with an actual prototypical image of scientists as writers of science. The synthesis was used to develop a questionnaire to assess scientists’ writing habits, beliefs, strategies, an...

extremes and produced a story which is vivid, factual and Convincing. The theme?that of the cause and course of alcoholism ln a personality of refinement?is handled with insight and knowledge, sympathy and toleration, and built up without either sentimentality or sensationalism. Events move quickly but carry conviction, the style is impersonal and the descriptions succinct. To sticklers, the us...

There have been a considerable number of studies on the research article genre (RA) from different perspectives form and function. However, limited examined overall organizational structure articles with all main sections article, Introduction-Methods-Results-Discussion (IMRD). are also variations in IMRD across disciplines. The present study sought to analyze a) rhetorical individual Forestry ...

Research articles generate and disseminate disciplinary knowledge in a specific field of study. They are expected to be objective, faceless, free from expressions emotion. However, linguistic confusion that signal authors’ affective attitude toward the propositional information not uncommon research articles. To determine describe dynamic changes occurred deployment such communicating knowledge...

This study aims to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of verbs used in the introduction section of Applied Linguistics research articles published in Iranian and international journals. A corpus of 20 research article introductions (10 from each journal) was used. The corpus was analysed for the syntactic features (tense, aspect and voice) and semantic meaning of verbs. The finding...

In academic writing, comparison and contrast is particularly valuable because it enables you to see familiar things in new ways. "Common sense" says that two things are the same, but a careful comparison and contrast demonstrates their important differences. That same common sense may say that two things are totally incompatible, but when you compare and contrast them systematically, you discov...

A new handwriting model is proposed for simulating complex handwriting variation in obedience to individual handwriting tendencies. Individual handwriting t,endency is represented as a set of deformation rules each of which deforms one structure of pen movements. Characters are represented as hierarchical descriptions of pen movements, so that deformation rules for various types of pen movement...

Core vocabulary items (e.g. thing, way) are often viewed as the enemy of effective academic writing, and style guides textbooks advise against using them. However, their bad reputation seems to stem from a single-word perspective that ignores rich phraseological units such tend figure in. In this study, we focus on core lemma thing investigate extent which approach can redeem its reputation. We...

This study sought to compare Iranian EFL novice and expert teachers regarding their procedural knowledge in Iranian language institutes and universities. A questionnaire was developed based on the literature, the theoretical framework, and the results of a qualitative study. This questionnaire was administered to the whole sample of the study who was 200 Iranian EFL teachers from different gend...