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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Ansary, Hasan; Babaii, Esmat – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2009
It is true that analyses of English language texts dominate the literature. It is equally true that a flourishing field of "Contrastive Rhetoric" (CR) research has begun to address the way various text types and/or "genres" may differ across cultures and languages (see Connor 1996, 2003). Very much in line with these developments, this study was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Ansary, Hasan; Babaii, Esmat – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2005
One fruitful line of research has been to explore the local linguistic as well as global rhetorical patterns of particular genres in order to identify their recognizable structural identity, or what Bhatia (1999: 22) calls "generic integrity". In terms of methodology, to date most genre-based studies have employed one or the other of Swales'…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Integrity, Newspapers, Editing