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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Climate assemblies have emerged as participatory mechanisms and as socio‐educational spaces for engaging citizens in climate decision‐making and promoting sustainability learning. However, to date, initiatives involving children and young people remain underexplored.
Gisela Cebrián, Justin Dillon
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Designed to be Forgotten: Visual Anonymization in Ecological Publishing
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.Abstract For over three centuries, the visual identity of scientific journals served as a mark of institutional and disciplinary heritage. In recent years, however, an industry‐wide consolidation of journal publishing has been accompanied by a convergence toward standardized, interchangeable layouts.
Ehsan Moqanaki
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Postulating hypotheses in experimental doctoral dissertations on Applied Linguistics
Ibérica, 2014 The extent to which research hypotheses need to be incorporated in experimental studies often becomes a subject of discussion among academics supervising the writing of theses and dissertations.
Jason Miin-Hwa Lim +2 more
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The student laboratory report genre: A genre analysis
English for Specific Purposes, 2017 © 2016 Elsevier Ltd This article provides a move analysis of the student laboratory report, a genre which is central to science and engineering study, and to which students may have had little prior exposure. Using a data set of 60 highly-graded laboratory reports from the BAWE corpus (British Academic Writing in English, Gardner & Nesi, 2013 ...
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study theorises and empirically tests performative purpose alignment theory (PPAT), which conceptualises corporate purpose as a performative artefact materialised through discursive and multimodal signals. To operationalise this, we introduced the SDG–Purpose Alignment Index (SPAI), a computational construct that quantifies the thematic ...
Augustine Okeke, Ifeanyi Ugbebor
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Stance adverbials in research writing [PDF]
Ibérica, 2015 This paper describes an analysis of eight categories of stance adverbials, for example “definitely” and “usually”, in a corpus of 600 research articles (RAs) across 12 disciplines, six science and six non-science.
Matthew Peacock
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Supporting the Shift: Professional Development for Alternative Grading Practices
New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Alternative grading (e.g., contract grading, ungrading, specifications grading) practices have emerged as a promising approach to enhance student success, improve students’ sense of belonging, and make higher education more accessible. This study explores the challenges faced by community college faculty when implementing alternative grading ...
Breana Bayraktar, J. Indigo Eriksen
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Academic style and format of doctoral theses: The case of the disappearing discussion chapter [PDF]
Ibérica, 2010 This article describes work carried out within the sphere of analysis of university academic discourse that possibly contains an intercultural comparative element.
Elaine Hewitt, Ángel Felices Lago
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Translator’s Preface as a Genre: A Comparative Analysis of Lithuanian and English Prefaces
Darnioji daugiakalbystė, 2018 Translations serve as a right to the international existence as they allow the national literature to reach wider audiences. Moreover, they allow readers to get acquainted with literature of other cultures.
Bikmanienė Milda
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Public reporting among Singapore Exchange‐listed firms now presents supplier sustainability governance with considerable visibility, although whether that visibility reflects institutionalised supplier control rather than disclosure alignment remains uncertain.
Nicolas van der Nest
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