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Academic writing for academic Persian: A synthesis of recent research
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Type
Book Chapter
Citation
Ng, C. H., & Cheung, Y. L. (2021). Academic writing for academic Persian: A synthesis of recent research. In Abbas Aghdassi (Ed.), Perspectives on academic Persian (pp. 173–192). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75610-9_10
Abstract
Besides enhancing Persian academic reading, in an English only research world, Persian academic stakeholders have to master English and/or Persian academic writing to disseminate findings globally to members of different disciplinary communities through Persian and English language as a lingua franca. This chapter uses the method of qualitative meta-synthesis of 40 empirical studies specifically on academic writing in Persian in refereed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings published during the period of 2005–2020. An inductive approach to thematic analysis synthesizes (a) the theoretical models for researching Academic Persian in academic writing and (b) the similarities and differences between academic writers from Persian and English for different disciplines. Theoretically and pedagogically, the findings from the comparisons and the systematic content analysis following Sandelowski et al. (Res Nurs Health 20:365–371. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1098-240X(199708)20:4<365
Date Issued
2021
ISBN
9783030756093 (print)
9783030756109 (online)
Publisher
Springer