Medical discourse has recently attracted much scholarly attention. However, few studies have concentrated on both the overall rhetorical structure of the research article (RA) and the specific lexicogrammatical features of the texts, particularly English-Persian contrastive studies on medical RAs. Relying on Nwogu’s (1997) framework, the present study aimed at providing a macroanalysis of the I...

Due to the differences of students' English proficiency and rapid changes in reading interests, online personalized recommendation is a highly challenging problem. Although some works have been proposed address dynamic change recommendation, there are two issues with these methods. First, it only considers whether students read recommended articles. Second, methods often fail capture real-time ...

<p><em>This study has investigated Yemeni secondary school students’ articles errors with a reference to Labooza and AL-Samood in Radfan district. Data were collected through writing test that targeted 100 students. The results revealed 53.6% of uses the wrong. It also showed these can be subdivided into article omission </em>41.79%, addition 23.88%, substitution 34.32%. These...

abstract this study focuses on realizations and discourse functions of the organizational linkers in the writing of research article abstracts from four disciplines. to this end, 120 research article abstracts from four disciplines namely, applied linguistics, economics, agriculture, and applied physics (30 from each discipline) were selected. all research article abstracts were extracted from ...