Research article writing has received a great deal of attention from ESP researchers. Analyses of the general structure of Introduction-Method-Results-Discussion (IMRD) articles, as well as detailed analyses of individual sections, including introductions, results, and discussions sections, have dominated the ESP literature, especially following Swales' pioneering work on introductions in the e...

These notes are an expanded form of lectures to presented at the C.I.M.E. summer school in representation theory in Venice, June 2004. The sections of this article roughly follow the five lectures given. The first three lectures (sections) are meant to give an introduction to an audience of mathematicians (or mathematics graduate students) to quantum computing. No attempt is given to describe a...

This article is an introduction to two fundamental primitives in cryptographic protocol theory: commitment schemes and zero-knowledge protocols, and a survey of some new and old results on their existence and the connection between them. 1 What’s in this article? This article contains an introduction to two fundamental primitives in cryptographic protocol theory: commitment schemes and zero-kno...

Research articles have received a wide interest in discourse studies particularly in genre analysis over the last few decades. A vast number of studies have been centered on identifying the organizational patterns of research articles in various fields. While Introduction section has enjoyed a lot of attention, very few studies have focused on rhetorical structure of qualitative and quantitativ...

this paper seeks to find out the degree of the rhetorical variation between the introduction sections of research papers published in english for international journals and those published in farsi in the area of computer sciences. to this end, a corpus of 100 farsi and 100 english research papers were collected and analyzed sentence by sentence based on swales’ 1990 cars model. the results rev...

The study investigated whether there was any significant generic difference between the Research Questions (RQs) and Method sections of applied linguistics research articles (RAs) published in international and local Iranian journals. Two hundred applied linguistics RAs (100 from each group) were selected from 5 SSCI-indexed international journals and 5 Iranian Scientific-Research (Elmi-Pazhouh...

Many types of argument claims and supports (premises) are made in a research paper. The study analyzed the used Abstract Introduction sections sociology papers, common patterns. Seventy papers were sampled from ten journals with highest impact factor InCites Journal Citation Reports. categorized into three research: Investigative research, Development evaluation Descriptive research. A coding s...

The purpose of this article is to provide guidance to scholars regarding key aspects of writing qualitative manuscripts. The aim is to offer practical suggestions as opposed to examining epistemological or theoretical issues and debates related to qualitative family research. The authors begin by providing guideposts in writing the major sections of a qualitative article (Introduction, Method, ...