Overall Rhetorical Structure of Students’ English and Persian Argumentative Essays

Abstract

Abstract-This study investigates commonalities and differences in overall rhetorical structure within the Iranian EFL subjects in their Persian and English pre-and post-argumentative essays and also it examines the effect of two different treatments, namely, models with implicit instruction, and models alone. After conducting TOFEL test, 76 subjects were selected. They were randomly divided into two groups, an experimental group which received no-instruction treatment, and a control group which was instructed implicitly. A pre-test and a post-test were administered before and after the treatment. The quantitative analysis of the post-argumentative essays revealed that the implicit group outperformed the no-instruction group. This study is significant for genre analysis and contrastive rhetoric research.

Prognostic Factors of In-Hospital Mortality in Adult Patients With Aluminum Phosphide (ALP) Poisoning in Southern Iran (2014-2018)

“…To determine the prevalence of this phenomenon in each age group, however, it is better to interpret the observed mortality rate according to the population pyramid. It is noteworthy that all patients in the present study had intentionally used ALP for suicide, which was in line with the recent study's findings, a phenomenon that should be taken into consideration by health policymakers [3,4,6,29,34,35].…”

“…Also, the present study results showed that 55.7% of our patients were men, but there was no significant difference between the survivor and non-survivors regarding gender distribution. Similar to our results, Khodabandeh et al found that 60.6% of ALP poisoned patients were men [34]. Shokrzadeh et al also reported that death due to ALP poisoning was more common in men [5], a finding that was also reported by Navabi et al [3], Saha et al [36], Ranga et al [37], and Rahbar Taramsary et al [29].…”

“…Khodabandeh et al stated that the Mean±SD number of tablets consumed was 2.0±0.5 tablets [34]. This number was reported 1.7±1.0 and 2.6±1.9, respectively, in survived and non-survived patients in the Navabi et al's study [3].…”

“…It was found that 45.5% and 34% of poisoned patients were in the age groups of 16-24 and 25-34 years, respectively. Khodabandeh et al reported that the highest prevalence of ALP poisoning was in the age group of 15-24 years (48.6%) [34], and in Shadnia et al's study, most patients were between 20 and 40 years old [32]. Rahbar Taramsary et al also found that 64.7% of patients were in the age group of 15-30 years, with a mean age of 29 years [29].…”

Syntactic complexity in Iranian learners' English writing and speaking

“…Nevertheless, much of the research that have been done in Iran up to now has been descriptive in nature of syntactic structures in Iranian English written or spoken discourse (e.g., Javidnia & Mahmoodi, 2015;Moghtadi, Koosha & Lotfi, 2015;Mohammadi, Gorjian & Pazhakh, 2014;Khodabandeh, Jafarigohar, Soleimani & Hemmati, 2013;& Mehregan, 2013 ). In addition, no research has been found in Iran that surveys the improvement of syntactic complexity in learners' English writing and speaking.…”