The invisible hands of peer reviewers play a determining role in the eventual fate of submissions to international English-medium journals. This study builds on the assumption that non-native researchers and prospective academic authors may find the whole strive for publication, and more specifically, the tough review process, less threatening if they are aware of journal reviewers’ expectation...

A theoretical understanding is offered to help explore how students attempt reconcile divergent narratives around the purposes of Higher Education in relation their own writing. Drawing from twin notions centripetal and centrifugal forces, paper discusses ways that both follow resist convention writing, reasons for doing so. In revealing intricate oscillation between restrictive expansive writi...

  This paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. The aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in English and published in England and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in Persian from Iranian publications. For this purpose, the frequency...

Following Swales’s (1981) works on genre analysis, studies on different sections of research articles in different languages and fields abound. This paper compares Applied Linguistics  research article abstracts published in Oxford University and Islamic Azad University of Tabriz in English using Swales’s (1981-1990) move structure model and Halliday’s (1994) description of transitivity process...

of higher education into focus in the past few years. they have tried to improve the quality of their own higher education. the studies show that iranian universities are not at an accepted level in terms of quality. they have encountered several problems which have diminished their quality level. this study aimed at assessing the quality of medical education program as viewed by general practi...

John Trimbur recently wrote that for writing centers, literacy has become redefined as " multiliteracy, " referring to the " multimodal activity in which oral, written, and visual communication intertwine and interact " (" Multiliteracies " 29). At once, broadening the term " literacy " complicates the role of the writing center in a university while clarifying how it can fulfill cross-discipli...

h w a b l u c ( lthough the words have changed today from recognition to value, the issue for our profession continues to be one of respect—and indispensability (1). Recent articles in this ournal have addressed the need to increase the value of the rofession (1,2). Some have discussed expanding clinical privleges, including nutrition diagnosing and order writing. Similar iscussions go back yea...