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Direct linkRobert Lucio; Emilie Souhrada; Emily Shayman; Hannah Michalczak – Children & Schools, 2024
School social work (SSW) roles are often surrounded by ambiguity across schools, districts, states, and nationally. The School Social Work Association of America's National Practice Model and National Evaluation Framework, along with the National Association of Social Workers' "Standards for School Social Work Services" are the guidance…
Descriptors: School Social Workers, Standards, Professional Associations, Content Analysis
Waalkes, Phillip L.; DeCino, Daniel Andrew; LeBlanc, Joe; Phelps-Pineda, Monica Maria; Somerville, Tiffany; Flynn, Stephen V. – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2023
We conducted a content analysis of generic qualitative counseling dissertations (GQR; N = 70), examining their methodological justifications, coherence, and trustworthiness. Dissertations authors often presented vague methodological justifications. Findings have implications for constructing methodological justifications, integrating relevant…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Doctoral Dissertations, Content Analysis, Doctoral Students
Download full textWan Jusoh, Wan Nur Aida Sakinah; Abdul Jobar, Norfaizah; Md Yusoff, Md Zahril Nizam – Online Submission, 2022
This literature review looked at relevant research articles published in reputable journals from 2018 to 2022 to try to shed light on the areas: (1) Implications of using thematic progression pattern to improve the coherence and unity of student essays; and (2) The effects of thematic problems using the thematic progression approach in the…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Improvement, Writing (Composition), Writing Evaluation
Abdi, Reza; Saeedakhtar, Afsaneh; Teymouri, Simin – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
Writing for social engagement in an academic context indicates the authors' attitude towards the propositional content and the text's audience through metadiscursive maxims markers employment. This study tried to determine whether there are any differences in metadiscourse marking in research articles across different disciplines and different…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Academic Language, Intellectual Disciplines, Audience Awareness
Alhaj, Ali Albashir Mohammed – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
The current study aims at exploring some syntactic and semantic underlying problems in three English translations of the meanings of Surat Quraish; that is in English translations of AbdelHaleem, Khan and Mohammed Taj Al-Din Al-Hilai and Pickthall. Also, the study aims at probing how the three translators deal with some syntactic and semantic…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, English (Second Language), Translation
Mason, Shannon; Merga, Margaret – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
While still more common in the sciences, the Thesis by Publication (TBP) is gaining increasing popularity in the social sciences. However, we argue that norms and possibilities around accepted possible structures for this thesis form are still very much emergent, with a paucity of research concentrating on this area. As a consequence, doctoral…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Writing for Publication, Doctoral Dissertations, Social Sciences
Gafiyatova, Elzara V.; Korovina, Irina V.; Solnyshkina, Marina I.; Yarmakeev, Iskander E. – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2017
The article presents the results of the research aimed at analyzing some functions and features of deictic elements in academic discourse in English. The material under analysis covers 20 academic texts written by English-speaking linguists. In the article it is proved that in academic discourse deictic elements can operate only within the fixed…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Text Structure, Connected Discourse, English
Park, GoMee; Ye, Yafei; Liao, Ray J. T. – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
Cohesion plays an important role in science texts as their comprehension depends much on structural and textual signalling, which demonstrates the organisation of the text, the logical links of ideas, and the intended purpose of the writer. Particularly, research has shown that English learners (ELs) rely more on cohesive markers than their…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Printed Materials, Electronic Publishing, Instructional Materials
Li, Haiying; Graesser, Arthur C.; Conley, Mark; Cai, Zhiqiang; Pavlik, Philip I., Jr.; Pennebaker, James W. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2016
Formality has long been of interest in the study of discourse, with periodic discussions of the best measure of formality and the relationship between formality and text categories. In this research, we explored what features predict formality as humans perceive the construct. We categorized a corpus consisting of 1,158 discourse samples published…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Comparative Analysis, Speeches
Na-on, Rungrudee; Jaturapitakkul, Natjiree – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2017
The aim of this study is to identify cohesion in the research project abstracts of Thai EFL engineering undergraduate students and to determine the writing patterns of their abstracts. Thirty-nine abstracts (200-300 words in length) from the faculty of Engineering in three different disciplines of the International Program were compiled and…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Documentation
Ghadyani, Fariba; Tahririan, Mohammad Hassan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
To determine the issue of whether there were any significant differences between the groups including Iran ISI, Iran non- ISI, and native authors in binary comparisons as for employing interactional markers, the present study was conducted. To collect the data, 90 "method sections" of English medical research articles within Iranian ISI,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Meta Analysis, Medical Research, Journal Articles
Boshrabadi, Abbas Mehrabi; Biria, Reza; Zavari, Zahra – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study was an attempt to investigate the functional role of textual and interpersonal metadiscourse markers in English and Persian Economic news reports. To this end, 10 news articles, 5 in each language, were randomly selected from the Economic sections of the leading newspapers published in 2013-2014 in Iran and the United States. Based on…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, English, Indo European Languages, Newspapers
Mirzapour, Fatemeh; Ahmadi, Maryam – English Language Teaching, 2011
The present study aims to analyze comparatively English and Persian research articles (Linguistics, Literature, and Library and Information disciplines) in terms of number and degree of utilization of sub-types of lexical cohesion in order to appreciate textualization processes in the two languages concerned. The study analyzes 60 research…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Comparative Analysis, Connected Discourse, English
Fazel, Ismaeil – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2013
After a brief discussion of the importance of publishing in academic journals, this paper provides an overview of studies on writing for publication of NNES (non-native English speaking) writers. Based on the related literature, different language problems facing NNES contributors, from the perspective of both NNES writers and journal editors, as…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Journal Articles, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
McNair, Daniel J.; Curry, Toi L. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2013
This review of current writing assessment practices focuses upon the adult population, an area significantly underrepresented within psychoeducational literature. As compared to other populations, such as K-12 students, there are few options for the practitioner wishing to evaluate adult writers by means of standardized assessment instruments.…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, College Students, Writing Skills, Evaluation Methods
