Rhetorical strategies in PhD conclusions of computer science

DT8114 - PhD Seminar in Computer Science

this document represents the final essay for the PhD course DT8114 – PhD Seminar in Computer Science, which is part of my doctoral study program. This report aims to give an overview of the main topics in the course syllabus, which is composed by the following papers and books: • Langton C. Artificial Life, pag. 1-48 Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation ...

PhD position in Computer Science at INSA Lyon

The general context of this project is smart objects, aka the Internet of Things. Technologically speaking, we are interested in next generation System-on-Chip platforms, based on non-volatile memory technologies. Such technologies make it possible to design very energy-efficient embedded systems, but they also require significant changes in terms of software programming. We aim at designing an...

First Year Report PhD - Computer Science ( DAI ) “ Memetic Evolution & Suboptimisation

a contrastive study of rhetorical functions of citation in iranian and international elt scopus journals

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...

Analysis of the rhetorical structure of computer science abstracts in Portuguese

It is widely acknowledged that academic writing is a complex task even for native speakers, since it involves the complexities of the writing process as well as those specific to the academic genre (Sharples and Pemberton 1992). To make it worse, especially to novice writers, often the demands of the academic genre are not clear enough. A number of writing tools have been described in the liter...