This research investigates how professional authors construct their authorial identities in English articles (RAs). Sixty were selected from three disciplines, biology, linguistics, and medicine, published by native non-native reputable international journals. First-person references the analyzed qualitatively quantitatively with help of corpus linguistic methods to examine they used express, d...

neonatal unit; 18 of these infants had been born outside the hospital. While the overall survival rate was 47%, out of 17 normally formed infants born at 23-25 weeks' gestation only 2 (12%) survived. Both are so far neurodevelopmentally normal but one has severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia necessitating frequent admissions to hospital. The survival rate of 12% is in keeping with that of Professo...

This paper analyzes the impact of IRCA 1986, a U.S. amnesty, on immigrants’ human capital development and labor market outcomes. Because of IRCA, the 19751981 arrivals were all legalized by 1990. However, many of the 1982-1986 arrivals remained illegal. Using the California Latino immigrants in Census 1990, I find that the 1975-81 arrivals on average outperform the 1982-86 arrivals in men’s wag...