Introduction and Interviews

Unstructured Interviews

: metadiscourse in introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics research articles: exploring variation in frequency and type

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...

Learning medicine. Interviews and offers.

Opinion differs widely and deeply on the value and fairness of an interview as part of the process for selecting medical students. Two thirds of medical schools interview the strongest applicants and use the interview to decide among them; the remainder interview only a small number of applicants, such as mature students, in an attempt to assess more fully their motivation and circumstances. Ap...

Multiple mini-interviews versus traditional interviews: stakeholder acceptability comparison.

CONTEXT The McGill University Faculty of Medicine undertook a pilot, simulation-based multiple mini-interview (MMI) for medical school applicant selection, which ran simultaneously with traditional unstructured interviews (all applicants underwent both processes). This paper examines major stakeholder (applicants and evaluators) opinions towards the MMI compared with traditional interviews, inc...

Sponge Structure; Introduction and Applications

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