Despite the crucial role of introductory sections in argumentative academic writing, the effects of genre- based approaches to writing introductory paragraphs have not been much explored yet. The present study aimed to investigate whether the provision of genre knowledge through modeling and non-modeling could enhance learners’ ability in writing introductory paragraphs of argumentative essays....

An amount of research has risen growing concern of designing aesthetics of interaction in addition to function, usability, and pleasure of it. Beyond aesthetic interaction, we propose poetic interaction as a promising design genre. Based on Bachelard’s phenomenological approach, we suggest that poetic interaction design begin with imagination and expression-making of both material and computati...

the present study investigated the effect of single and multiple genre movies on listening comprehension of upper intermediate language learners. to this end, a language proficiency test was administered to 40 male and female postgraduates of different majors attending international english language testing system (ielts) classes and ultimately 25 upper intermediate language learners were selec...

news has played a vital role in peoples’ and governments’ decision making. as such, the source and reliability of the news are of equal or even more significance than the news itself and that makes reporting the news a challenging and critical profession. accordingly, investigating how news is reported is essential and further it would be illuminating to see how different news reporting organiz...

The Representations of Carnival in Fantasias for Piano and Orchestra by Darius Milhaud Heitor Villa-Lobos In the 1920s, Frenchman (1892–1974) Brazilian (1887–1959), inspired carnival, created works that resemble each other genre scoring. These are fantasias piano orchestra: Mômoprecóce Le Carnaval d'Aix, Op. 83b Milhaud. article presents an attempt to analyse pieces context carnivalesque aesthe...

this essay is to study the rhetoric and stylistic features of hafiz's rubaiyat. although this literary form has not a major contribution in divan of hafiz in comparison to his lyrics, but it deserves to get more attention, because this famous poet has blown part of his spirit and inner feelings into its existence. assuming the validity of this attribution, it has been tried to analyze hafi...