NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 4 results Save | Export
Avila Reyes, Natalia Alejandra – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Writing Studies has flourished as a field in Latin America during the last two decades. Its development has been fostered by an exponential growth of college enrollments and processes of expansion and democratization of the educational offer in the region. The renewed attention received by higher education writing has fueled new research efforts…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Writing Instruction, Epistemology, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Gholami, Javad; Ilghami, Roghayeh – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2016
Metadiscourse markers (MDMs) are lexical resources that writers employ to organize their discourse and state their stance towards the content or the reader. This study investigated the frequency with which interactive and interactional MDMs were employed in biological research articles (RAs). It also explored the possible relationship between the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Lexicology, Academic Discourse, Biology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Shi, Weixuan; Han, Jikun – English Language Teaching, 2014
Writing, as an advanced model of output, not only conveys the subject but also realizes the communication between readers and writers. Metadiscourse can help writers arrange and organize the discourse to influence readers' understanding of the text and their attitude towards its content. Taking writing samples of College English Test Band 4…
Descriptors: Writing Research, College English, Student Writing Models, Meta Analysis
Goldstein, Elizabeth Odoroff – 1980
It was hypothesized that writers of sentence pairs with clear relationships would have better recall of second sentences than would writers of sentence pairs with unclear relationships. Clear connections between sentences in sentence pairs were defined as those sentences in which the language of the first sentence was explicitly picked up in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Connected Discourse