the efficacy of genre-based approach to teaching writing has been regarded as an influential practice in l2 writing pedagogy (hyland, 2007). however, there is still gap between actual structures found in reading materials recommended as textbooks and discourse patterns recommended for l2 writing in efl contexts, the gap which would highlight the problems of genre and rhetorical patterns for tea...

Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) are known to be licensed in wh-questions. But not all wh-questions behave alike with respect to NPI licensing. As pointed out in Han and Siegel (1996), while all argument wh-questions with NPIs can have a RHETORICAL QUESTION reading, only a subset of them can have a true wh-question reading. In this paper, we point out that adjunct wh-questions with NPIs cannot ha...

The efficacy of genre-based approach to teaching writing has been regarded as an influential practice in L2 writing pedagogy (Hyland, 2007). However, there is still gap between actual structures found in reading materials recommended as textbooks and discourse patterns recommended for L2 writing in EFL contexts, the gap which would highlight the problems of genre and rhetorical patterns for tea...

in his article, “an ecocritical reading of saʿdī’s ‘the mocaddamah; or, introduction to the gulistan of shaikh sadi’” massih zekavat argues that some aspects of ecological conceptualizations seem to have remained unchanged in iran since the thirteenth century. he also explores the possibility of applying one of the most recent western critical approaches to a distinguished text in the persian l...

The presented statement is part of the volume it covers a variety responses from people who interact with art in different ways. aim to suggest participant contemporary world new, personal perspective rethink what this area our that we label art; thoughts and without theoretical suggestions - reflections by creators audience, teaching humility uniqueness, perhaps forming fresh on art.

A model of layout in illustrated documents must be informed by the rhetorical structure of the content. However, real-life production constraints often force an ‘imperfect’ realisation of the rhetorical structure on the page. Navigational elements must consequently be introduced into the layout to support the reading path. Layout structures, including the placement of the navigational elements,...

Abstract in every research paper has always been functioning as an attention-grabber which can encourage readers to keep reading the research or to dissuade it. Although abstracts are believed to play an important role in distributing the research findings, few studies have been done to evaluate the rhetorical organization of thesis abstracts, especially in the field of Teaching English as a Fo...

This short paper describes our ongoing work on representing the argument structure of a particular class of persuasive texts, and on reading experiments designed to investigate the effects of certain rhetorical devices, in particular the use of explicit argumentative connectives.