Background: In a science classroom, students do not simply learn scientific ways of doing, knowing, and reasoning unless they find ways of appropriating scientific discourse. In the Next Generation Science Standards, major forms of scientific discourse are emphasized as a main part of the Science and Engineering Practices. To enhance student engagement in scientific discourse, teachers need to ...

The dominant approach to argumentation mining has been to treat argumentation scheme detection as a machine learning problem based upon superficial text features, and to treat the relationships between arguments as support or attack. However, applications such as accurately representing and summarizing argumentation in scientific research articles require a deeper understanding of the text and ...

the absolute hegemony of international code of (academic) communication has resulted in the development and spread of the discoursal voice of the culture form which historical english has emerged, and, as a consequence, any violation from the generic conventions and thinking patterns born out of such a discourse has resulted in the deprivation of non-native thinkers form active participation in...