Natural selection of academic papers

The role of papers in academic promotion

Writing research papers and books as well as publishing in scientific journals are very important in universities’ scientific promotion. They have a veto-like role in promotion procedure. Reaching high level in academic procedure is valuable, provided that scientific activities reach the highest points and, above all, can be used in solving each country’s internal problems. Here, by papers, I ...

Academic papers Reoperationalising the loyalty framework

Text similarity in academic conference papers

If we are to use electronic plagiarism detectors on student work, it would be interesting to know how much similarity should be expected in independently written documents on a similar topic. If our measure is coarse, the answer should be zero, but a finer grained analysis (such as would be needed to detect inadequate paraphrasing) is likely to detect some background noise. How much background ...

a study of hedging in persian academic papers

the present paper studies hedges in persian academic papers. hedging has an important role in academic discourse; in fact it is a device expressing a writer's degree of certainty or doubt about a proposition. in this study, a collection of 114 academic papers (57 papers in the field of chemistry and 57 papers in the field of persian literature) have been analyzed. the results show that the...

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...