Submitting an article to an English journal for publication requires enclosing an accompanying cover letter. Yet, the phraseology and rhetorical conventions of such letters are not comprehensively documented in literature. This article investigates two English corpora of genuine electronic submission letters to journal editors by Iranian English Language Teaching and Mathematics professionals. ...

The present study aims to explore the role of Chinese EFL learners’ rhetorical strategy use in relation to their achievement in English writing in Taiwan. It has been argued that traditional Chinese text structures (indirect style) continue to influence the contemporary English writing of Chinese students in expository writing text. The manner of Chinese communication style and the origin of tr...

Three approaches to intertextual writing are available college instructors: mechanical, ethical, and rhetorical. The mechanical approach, a staple of instruction, teaches the use citation styles such as MLA or APA; methods citing sources; conventions quotation. ethical approach is primarily concerned with character individual writers their adherence community standards categorized “academic int...

This paper discusses the improvements that critical-complex pedagogy proposes to present situation analysis – a fundamental pre-course investigation of students’ communicative and learning needs wants in English for Specific Purposes literature. The expands beyond rhetorical linguistic conventions target discourse. A three-phase design an online Critical Academic course is presented demonstrate...

This article is a study of letters written by American children to authors juvenile fiction. It emphasizes the rhetorical and material choices made in bridging distance between themselves as writers who were receive letters. Focused on notions convention, uses theoretical concept slant analyze way child conformed conventions writing communication while also rendering those expectations askew. U...

The implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization have made teaching it a challenging task for a large group of practitioners in academic setting. One such feature of academic writing susceptible to cultural mentalities is metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one of the important rhetorical aspects in the writing p...

This study aimed to investigate the disciplinary and cross-disciplinary variations of research article Introduction sections in 2 disciplines (i.e., humanities and basic sciences). Ninety research article Introduction sections (i.e., 15 from each discipline of applied linguistics, sociology, psychology, biology, agriculture, and geology) were examined. The study was conducted with reference to ...

deducing what a paper is about, titles are considered as the most important determinant of how many people will read the article. therefore, studying the use of different syntactic structures and their rhetorical functions in titles is of great significance. the current study was set to investigate these structures used in research article titles in three disciplines of applied linguistics, den...

the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization have made teaching it a challenging task for a large group of practitioners in academic setting. one such feature of academic writing susceptible to cultural mentalities is metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one of the important rhetorical aspects in the writing p...