the present study investigated the use of interactive metadiscourse resources (imrs) in terms of appropriacy during a process- based writing course by applying qualitative and exploratory methods. moreover, learners' perception was investigated to find out how confident they felt as they were writing and rewriting the drafts. 30 intermediate efl learners were chosen to participate in this study...

Background and purpose: Metadiscourse markers (MDMs) play a significant role in academic witting. They act as a bridge between writers and readers and make a text more understandable. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the use of MDMs in introduction, methods, results, and discussion (IMRaD) sections of English medical research articles (RAs) published in Iranian and American ISI jour...

writing projects are socially-situated identities. the rhetorically-loaded aspects of writing, like metadiscourse marking, are more prone to carry such identities. through analyzing metadiscourse strategies employment in persian and english (as the lingua franca of academic discourse community) research articles, this study makes an attempt to find out whether persian native writers take on the...

Discourse markers improve both the quality and comprehension of a written text. This study aimed at investigating the effect of explicit and implicit instruction of formal meta-discourse markers on writ- ing skills. The quantitative data were collected from 90 upper-intermediate students at Shiraz Univer- sity Language Center. Two experimental groups went through an instruction, while the contr...

يستخدم الكتاب الأكاديميون مصطلح "الخطاب الشارح" في كتاباتهم لإقناع جمهورهم من خلال قيادتهم وإشراكهم النص كل مستويي الخطاب الشارح ، أي المستويات التوجيهية والتفاعلية. تسعى الدراسة الحالية جاهدة للتحقيق المستوى التوجيهي لادوات الرواية الأصلية "الحرف القرمزي". اضافة الى ذلك تم اختيار عشر عينات كبيانات ليتم تحليلها. تهدف إلى التحقق تكرارات ووظيفة اداة التوجيهي. ولتحقيق الأهداف يتم استخدام ثلاث فرضي...

The present study looks into the variations in frequencies and pragmatic functions of metadiscourse markers known as boosters, particular, with regard to their verb forms. Three corpora have been compiled this end, covering fields engineering, medicine linguistics. were manually annotated for markers, boosters included, by a group annotators. A predetermined list was used annotation, but throug...

Many different sources and platforms are introduced everyday as information content. News article remains one of the primary forms textual written for public. Even with help metadiscourse in writing, authors still face an issue misunderstanding comprehending from their readers. Further analysis is needed to understand usage news article, it will contribute usage. The study aims analyse on about...

This contrastive study was conducted to contrastively analyze English and Farsi newspaper opinion columns in terms of the frequency of different types of stance markers.60 newspaper opinion columns (30 written in English and 30 written in Farsi) from 10 wide spread newspapers published in the United States and Iran in 2015 were analyzed. Hyland’s (2005) model of stance markers (hedges, boosters...