Kobra Mansourizadeh

• PhD in Teaching English as a Second Language
• University of Technology Malaysia

Research on corrective feedback has shown the beneficial effects of improving accuracy in writing though more research is being done on the effectiveness of different types of corrective feedback and the intervening variables. In line with this trend of research, this study was designed to investigate the effects of written and oral meta-linguistic...

Integrating source texts appropriately and effectively from various sources into one's own writing poses significant challenges for student writers as it demands sophisticated advanced academic skills. Beginning writers could benefit from studying strategies employed by more established writers from the same field. This paper reports the results of...

Citations are important rhetorical devices that when properly and strategically employed, allow writers to promote their current research findings persuasively and efficiently. As knowledge construction is progressive and cumulative, specifically in scientific disciplines, it is evident that acquiring skills for adequate and effective application o...

Citation is one of the most prominent features of academic writing through which academic writers both exhibit the breadth of their scholarship in a specific research area and subtly demonstrate their memberships of the disciplinary community. Citations are important rhetorical devices that allow seasoned writers to promote their current research f...

The latest developments and applications of hollow fiber membrane contactors (HFMCs) were discussed in this recent published book. Membrane contactor provides gas–liquid or liquid–liquid contact without dispersion of one phase in another, which gives a higher mass transfer coefficient compared to the conventional contactors. Using a microporous hyd...

Integrating source texts appropriately and effectively from various sources into one’s own writing poses significant challenges for student writers as it demands sophisticated advanced academic skills. Beginning writers could benefit from studying strategies employed by more established writers from the same field. This paper reports the results of...

Integrating source texts appropriately and effectively from various sources into one's own writing poses significant challenges for student writers as it demands sophisticated advanced academic skills. Beginning writers could benefit from studying strategies employed by more established writers from the same field. This paper reports the results of...

Plagiarism has long been an issue and it is becoming more common in academia, hence it has received considerable discussion. The serious problem needs to be treated before it becomes an epidemic that could bring negative effects, both to the involved institutions as well as to the students' academic success. It is often discussed in the literature...