The main purpose of this study was to examine the relation between attitudes towards science in biology courses and students' biology achievement. A total of 185 grade 12 (age 17-18 years) students in Isfahan answered to a 30-item questionnaire provided by authors based on STAQ-R inventory. The results showed that among attitude towards science dimensions, only "biology is fun for me", have meaningful and positive relation with students' achievement in biology. Also there was no significant difference between girls and boys in attitude towards biology, although girls had better achievements in biology in comparison with boys.
The present study sought to collect and compare three groups of scholars' perceptions of move recycling (MR) in social science research articles (RAs). More specifically, in the first phase of the study, 14 non-Iranian and 12 Iranian experienced RA authors in English from six social science disciplines were interviewed about their perspectives on MR. In the second phase of the study, 11 reputable discourse analysts' rationales for MR were collected via email to triangulate the data and identify additional factors influencing MR. Based on the recurring themes that emerged from three layers of data analysis, seven interrelated factors affecting the use of MR were identified: (1) readers' guidance, (2) conformity to English academic writing conventions, (3) conformity to discipline-specific conventions, (4) the length of RAs, (5) editorial policy, (6) improving RA text coherence, and (7) research promotion. The results of this study may alert students and novice researchers that academic writing conventions are based on reasons and that they should think critically to fathom these reasons and consciously adhere to the conventions.
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