Acknowledgments are vital since students/researchers can demonstrate their genuine appreciation through them and more importantly shape their (local/global) academic identity. In line with this significance, the present study examined the move patterns of 503 Persian dissertation acknowledgements from two major universities in Iran, from 1981 to 2014 and from sixteen various disciplines includi...

of the Dissertation ............................................................................. ii Acknowledgments .......................................................................................... iv Dedication ........................................................................................................ v Table of

.........................................................................................1 Acknowledgments.....................................................................3 Dissertation thesis ....................................................................5 Chapter 1 Research definition..................................................................7 1.1 Motivation .....................

OF THE DISSERTATION ................................................................. iii Acknowledgments ....................................................................................................... v List of Tables ...............................................................................................................x List of Figures ............................................

s in Hungarian language: Nádasyné I. E. Wágner G. (2004): A zöldborsó preemergens herbicidekkel szembeni érzékenysége. XIV. Keszthelyi Növényvédelmi Fórum kiadványa, Keszthely, 43.

OF THE DISSERTATION........................................................................ii PREFACE..........................................................................................................................iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS................................................................................................vi TABLE OF CONTENTS...........................................

of the Dissertation ............................................................................................... ii Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................ iv Table of contents ................................................................................................................ v List of tables .....

this contrastive study, in the first place, examined the generic structure and, in the second place, explored the face theory proposed by arundale (2006) in 140 doctoral dissertation acknowledgments written by native speakers of persian (nsp) and native speakers of english (nse) in 7 disciplines representing soft sciences to find out what discourse genre components writers employ to articulate ...

Abstract Current practices of quantifying academic performance by productivity raise serious concerns about the psychological well-being graduate students. These efforts often neglect influence researchers’ environment. Acknowledgments in dissertation subsections shed light on this environment providing an opportunity for students to thank people who supported them. We analysed 26,236 acknowled...