this study was motivated by three factors, which also contribute to its significance for today’s academic writing. first, research articles are the significant means of communication between the writers all over the world. second, persuasion and organization are crucial notions in academic writing where the authors have to consider the academic audiences and their needs.  third, some writers ar...

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...

introduction: one of the common methods for scientific activity assessment is scientometrics. it has been made possible with citation databases like web of science (wos) and scopus. in this paper, we studied the scientific production rate of hamadan university of medical sciences during 11 years via scientometrics methods. methods: in a descriptive, cross-sectional study, data was collected by ...

man's instinct for exploring is the most natural way to enhance motivation and, consequently, cognition. in the research-centered teaching method, developed after many y ears of teaching experience, the principles mentioned in textbooks are not presented directly instead, the lecture begins by posing an initial question about how scientists have discovered a certain principle. students are...

writers ensure the expected (re)construction of concepts in the mind of the audience through effective signposting of the inevitably linear linguistic stream, which is a main aspect of metadiscourse called interactive metadiscourse. in this study, the use of interactive metadiscourse markers in research articles was investigated to examine any probable difference existing between different disc...