Promoting the sustainable development of rural EFL students’ English ability is a vital issue in general curriculum guidelines Taiwan’s 12-Year Basic Education. This study aimed to investigate effects Facebook project on developing learners’ email literacy English. There were two participant groups: (1) six university majors and (2) 12 ninth-graders from junior high school. The instruments incl...

not take the place of a standardized logistic regression coefficient for valuating the strength of the influences of the independent variables on the dependent variable, relative to one another.” The strength of each independent variable cannot be judged based on the magnitude of the OR, so that a larger OR for one independent variable might not have a stronger association than a smaller OR for...

Few medical journals specifically instruct authors to use the active voice and avoid the passive voice, but advice to that effect is common in the large number of stylebooks and blogs aimed at medical and scientific writers. Such advice typically revolves around arguments that the passive voice is less clear, less direct, and less concise than the active voice, that it conceals the identity of ...

User-generated contents (UGC) such as online reviews are inherently incomplete since we do not capture the opinions of users who do not write a review. These silent users may have systematically different online experiences than those who speak up. These differences can be driven by users‟ differing sentiments towards their online experiences as well as their disposition to generate UGC. Indisc...

This book review explores the publication of an email correspondence between Carl Leggo and Kimberley Holmes which occurred over period time that was undergoing chemotherapy radiation treatment for a brain tumour eventually ended his life. It observes role as super-mentor graduate students undertaking works in poetic inquiry life writing, commitment to living poetically until unfortunate passin...

With the ever increasing popularity of emails, it is very common nowadays that people discuss specific issues, events or tasks among a group of people by emails. Those discussions can be viewed as conversations via emails and are valuable for the user as a personal information repository. For instance, in 10 minutes before a meeting, a user may want to quickly go through a previous discussion v...