â  â  â  â  abul-atahiya: his life and poems â  â mohammad ali otroshi shahreza * â  hossein kiani ** â  â abstract â abul-atahiya was born and grown up in kufa-iraq, a city chosen as the central city by shias and the abbasid dynasty publicized their government there. he lived in a period which slander was common so he kept company with adulterous people and acted dishonorably. he started compo...

the notion of genre has received a great deal of attention both in discourse analytic studies as well as in the field of esp/eap course design. the present paper has attempted to use genre analysis to account for the rhetorical features of research article introductions written by iranian academics in two disciplinary fields of education and economics. the corpus comprised 40 research article i...