The medical writings of early medieval western Europe c. 700 – c. 1000 have often been derided for their disorganised appearance, poor Latin, nebulous conceptual framework, admixtures of magic and folklore, and general lack of those positive features that historians attribute to ancient or later medieval medicine. This paper attempts to rescue the period from its negative image. It examines a n...

Dear Editor, Many years ago unprofessional supervisors were identified as one of the main reasons for the withdrawal of a student’s study. Recently in some universities, unethical supervision has become an increasing concern of students and ethic committees. The last few years has witnessed an increase in the withdrawal rate of students who quit their study because of the poor guidance of their...

Writing is one of the most common activities of a researcher. And since, the writing process is not only about writing, but also about researching the background of the domain or collecting the necessary references, we propose an integrated writing environment having semantic web technologies as foundation and encapsulating all the necessities involved in this above mentioned process.

This paper aims at providing a comprehensive review of previous research on second language (L2) writing. Major issues and the relevant findings from five areas of inquiry into L2 writing are presented, namely, L2 writers’ characteristics, the L2 writing process, L2 writing feedback, L2 writing instruction, and L2 writers’ texts. It is found that L2 writing is quite a complex process which invo...

Pre-writing, writing, and editing are viewed as recurring stages in the writing process. Composition courses embodying this view often have a library research component. In order to blend the writing process with an appropriate introduction to the library, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga developed a generic model of library research. This model has three stages: pre-library, library ...