Many argumentative texts, and news editorials in particular, follow a specific strategy to persuade their readers of some opinion or attitude. This includes decisions such as when to tell an anecdote or where to support an assumption with statistics, which is reflected by the composition of different types of argumentative discourse units in a text. While several argument mining corpora have re...

Reflecting one of the state-of-the-art issues in SLA, this study aimed at inspecting correspondence between Persian and English writing skills to see whether or not they emerged from a single entity called multi-competence (Cook, 1991, 2016). Besides, impact genre on was examined explore if their possible source were genre-sensitive not. In so doing, 50 MA TEFL students, intermediate level lang...

• ABSTRACT: This paper proposes the concept of frameworks for meaning construction in written texts, related to the dimensions of people’s experiences expressed in lexicalgrammatical text structure: genre, register, field, tenor and modality. These frameworks are observed in the analysis of a dissertative-argumentative text which does not correspond to any of the expected frameworks for the typ...

The article justifies the relevance of study convinciveness and persuasiveness categories in commercial discourse. An attempt is made to analyze genre «сommercial letter» accordance with discursive strategies tactics that promote effective business communication activities. Based on pragma-linguistic analysis written discourse, typological characteristics letters are defined. ways implementing ...

This study explored the relationship between EFL learners’ vocabulary size, lexical coverage of the text and reading comprehension texts (narrative & argumentative genres). To this end, 120 male and female out of 180 students studying at Talesh Azad University were selected based on their performance on the Nelson Proficiency Test. A Nelson reading proficiency test was also administered in orde...

Abstract In this research, we developed and empirically tested a dialogic writing intervention, an integrated language approach in which grade 5/6 students learn how to write, talk about their with peers, rewrite. The effectiveness of intervention was experimentally ten classes from eight schools, using pretest–posttest control group design. Classes were randomly assigned the (5 classes; 95 stu...

In this paper, we develop and evaluate several techniques for identifying argumentative paragraphs in Chinese editorials. We first use three methods of evaluation to score a paragraph’s argumentative nature: a relative word frequency approach; a method which targets known argumentative words in our corpus; and a combined approach which uses elements from the previous two. Then, we determine the...

European Journal of Information Systems (2011) 20, 491–495. doi:10.1057/ejis.2011.29 EJIS values diversity in all domains: topics, research methods, philosophy of science, origin of scholars and writing styles. This strategy aims at making wider connections and avoiding conformism at the expense of pluralism. In certain aspects of the academic writings norms are good things. An introduction sec...