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Author = Abdi,%20Reza
Number of Articles: 4
A study of quality and quantity of nominal groups in the Vision and Interchange series
Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 02 February 2024
Abstract
Materials evaluation plays an important role in language teaching as it helps practitioners to develop an awareness of the coverage and quality of the existing materials and as such, guides most instruction and revision decisions. Therefore, we sought to evaluate three English Vision textbooks exclusively ... Read MoreMetadiscourse strategies in Persian research articles; Implications for teaching writing English articles
Volume 4, Issue 9 , December 2012, , Pages 165-176
Abstract
In order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the Persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of Iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded ... Read MoreAvoiding Prolixity in Academic Prose; the Use of Quantity Metadiscourse in Research Articles
Volume 3, Issue 7 , December 2011, , Pages 1-17
Abstract
As part of a wider attempt to bestow the spirit of scholarly prose upon the research articles’ rhetorical structure, academic writers invariably take advantage of quantity metadiscourse markers to avoid prolixity and live up to the implicit and explicit maxims of quantity category as suggested ... Read MoreProjecting Cultural Identity through Metadiscourse Marking; A Comparison of Persian and English Research Articles
Volume 1, Issue 212 , December 2008, , Pages 1-15