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Viera, Rodrigo Tovar – Arab World English Journal, 2019
A growing body of literature recognizes the importance of examining research article (RA) abstracts in particular disciplines. RA abstracts, after titles, are the first mini texts that readers may encounter in a scientific paper. Abstracts, therefore, determine the value of the paper and categorize them as good or vague. The present contrastive…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Writing (Composition), Documentation, Contrastive Linguistics
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Buckingham, Louisa – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2014
This study investigates how a group of 30 multilingual academics, all users of English as an additional language (EAL) working at a private university in Oman, acquired discourse community membership in their disciplines through publishing in English, and the strategies they use to sustain the level of literacy needed to disseminate their research…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, College Faculty, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Brown, Peggy, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1981
Three essays on the ways in which colleges and universities use the computer as a teaching tool are presented, along with descriptions of 10 school programs that reflect the diversity of computer applications across the United States. In "A Place for Computing in Liberal Education," Karl L. Zinn likens the computer to personal resource…
Descriptors: Arabic, College Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing