نشریه پژوهش و نگارش کتب دانشگاهی
سال بیست و هفتم شماره 1 (پیاپی 52، بهار و تابستان 1402)

The aim of the research is to analyze the content of Plato's five treatises from the perspective of the attention paid to the social sufficiency intended by Felner. The research method is qualitative and content analysis type. Data collection tool, checklist and analysis unit, theme, were used. The findings show that out of 820 themes counted: cognitive skills with 471 frequency, behavioral skills with 211, motivational skills with 97 and emotional skills with 41 have the highest to the lowest amount. In the treatises of Laches, Ion and Protagoras, the most emphasis in cognitive skills is on the skill of knowledge and learning social skills, and in the treatises of Phaedon and Symposium on the skill of attitudes and beliefs, and the least attention in all treatises is on the skill of decision making. In behavioral skills, the most attention in the Treatise of Laches is to the skill of daring, and in the Treatises of Phaedon, Ion, Protagoras and Symposium to the skill of conversation, and the least amount of attention in the treatises of Laches, Phaedon, Protagoras and Symposium to the ability to Correct communication, and in the treatise of Ion, it has been used to help others. In emotional skills, the most attention was paid to the skill of controlling emotions and the least attention was paid to the skill of empathy. In the motivational skills, the most attention is paid to the skill of feeling efficient in.....

The textbook continues to be regarded as an essential instrument in the pedagogical process. The advancement of educational resources, as long as it adheres to scientific approaches of syllabus design, enables effective time management and the provision of materials tailored to the learners' requirements. Without conducting scientific research, identifying the appropriate methodology for this endeavor is unfeasible.In the realm of assembling instructional materials for teaching Persian to non-native speakers for academic objectives, it remains uncertain which among the currently available textbooks have been compiled according to specific approaches to syllabus design. To address this gap, the present study aims to identify the most effective method of designing lesson headings for teaching academic Persian. The data for this field study was gathered through a researcher-developed questionnaire. Forty-eight teachers of Persian language instruction for non-native speakers in university settings participated in this study. The results of the data analysis indicate that lesson plans based on content and language, content alone, and subject matter were deemed the most efficient for learners of academic Persian, ranking first to third, respectively. In contrast, task-based, text-based, and structural/grammatical lesson plans were ranked seventh to ninth in effectiveness. The present study's outcomes diverge from preceding research that accentuates the effectiveness of task-based lesson heading design. These findings will equip Persian language instructors in university settings to construct educational materials tailored to the academic requisites of foreign students enrolled in diverse programs in both domestic and foreign universities.

This research has examined the images of the book "Conversation", especially for foreign language learners, using the visual analysis method. This book, with the content of the conversations training, is compiled for foreign learners at the A1 level and has many pictures. The purpose of this research is to investigate the characteristics of the images of this book from the teacher's point of view, in order to investigate the images of an educational resource at the beginner level. The images in this book were evaluated quantitatively based on the "number and type of images" from Hill's (2013) point of view in Timilson (2013). Then, the sociocultural components of the linguistic community of Iran for foreign Persian learners have also been examined from the perspective of Bourdieu's (1986) theories of "cultural and social capital." The social, cultural and identity components that should be considered in the creation of an educational resource were studied in the book "Conversation for Learners of Persian as a Second Language." This research has presented a checklist of the essential features of images in Persian language educational resources for foreign learners, which can be effective in preparing images for the educational purposes of a teaching resource for teaching Persian to non-Persian speakers at the beginner level.

The pioneers of every scientific field always compile the first dictionary of terms for that science with the creation of new words, terms and combinations, so that they can create a way for understanding and expansion of that science, since the best and the fastest way to learn the exact equivalent of terms is to refer to the dictionary of terms specified for that science. Therefore, word selection and equivalence for terms in the field of specialized knowledge is of significant importance. Since there are lots of words, terms and interpretations in the field of literature and each one is related to one of the subjects and literacy techniques such as innovation, prose, rhetoric, criticism, linguistics, etc., and each of these collections has many subcategories therefore, finding the equivalence of these combinations and terms is one of the problems and challenges of bilingual Arabic-Persian lexicography in the field of literary terms. By explaining the morphological processes of word selection and equivalence in the dictionary of Arabic/Persian literary words and terms, this essay tries to analyze the important principles and criteria in the specialized lexicography of words and literary terms. Analyzing the Arabic and Persian word selection process of this book indicates that, despite the lack of some essential apparent and content components, the most used method among the microstructure components for word selection of Persian literary terms is the borrowed translation method and for Arabic terms is the derivation and combination method.

The aim of the current research was to investigate the perceptions of university professors as to the degree of transferability of textbook standards to electronic learning environments in the Iranian academic environment. In this mixed-method study, 132 faculty members completed an online questionnaire consisting of seven categories and 90 items related to textbook standards and 8 descriptive questions and evaluated the transferability of each of the standards to the electronic learning environment. To compare the mean differences of the standard groups with one another, within-subject analysis of variance, partial eta square and Bonferroni test were used. Qualitative data analysis was also carried out using the thematic analysis method. The quantitative results of the research showed that the most transferable items were the educational, linguistic, and content standards, respectively. The group of social-cultural standards was also reported to be transferable to an acceptable extent. Finally, the lowest perceived transferability was related to the group of structural, appearance and technical standards. The qualitative findings of the research also led to the extraction of four themes, including fundamental principles in all environments, enhanced possibilities of e-learning, flexibility and adaptability of the standards, and challenges and problems of adopting the standards. The insights obtained from the present research can have significant theoretical and practical implications for the establishment of local standards of developing electronic contents in the Iranian academic context.

The purpose of the current research is to investigate the indicators and components of political education in books and curricula of higher education. The approach of the current research is qualitative and its method is research synthesis. The research community is all the articles (201 articles) that have been presented from 1389 to 1401 and 2015 to 2023 about political education indicators in books and curricula of higher education. The sample of the research is 32 articles, which were selected based on thematic monitoring, theoretical data saturation, and purposefully. The research data were collected from the qualitative analysis of the studied articles. By analyzing the data, the dimensions of political education in academic books in 3 dimensions, 19 factors and 69 categories including the dimension of political knowledge (attention to the basics of political education, awareness of current issues, awareness of one's rights and others, awareness of political concepts - social, cultural knowledge and media literacy), the dimension of political vision (including the components of attention to identity and individual characteristics, having the spirit of cooperation and cooperation, work conscience, willingness to constructive competition, legalism and attention to national identity ) and the dimension of political action (including demanding and asserting rights, reasonable and logical decision-making, ability to reason, ability to participate and cooperate, safeguard national independence and freedom, ); were classified. The results showed that the political education of students has different dimensions that only paying attention to one dimension in academic books and curricula is not effective.

In the contemporary age, universities, particularly those in Iran, encounter various challenges concerning scientific writing. Among the key elements of audience-focused scientific writing, attractive writing is critical; however, research indicates that it often receives insufficient emphasis. Given this reality, it's imperative to prioritize and identify a comprehensive set of indicators for assessing the quality of attractive writing in scientific works.It is imperative to devise effective solutions to enhance its overall quality. The aim of the present study was to discern a set of indicators for evaluating the quality of attractive writing in academic writing. To achieve this goal, a qualitative approach and phenomenological method were employed. The research was conducted at the Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran. A purposive selection was made of 12 faculty members, who subsequently underwent a semi-structured interview. Utilizing Dickelman's strategy for analysis, the interviews were examined, resulting in the successful identification of 51 indicators. These indicators were then classified based on nine criteria, including "creative writing", "stimulating text", "brief writing", "simplified writing", "transparency of writing", "page layout order", "Attractive summarizers (appropriate use of graphic symbols)", "In-text coherence" and "Writing Correct Words" which can be used to accurately measure the characteristics of writing attractiveness. It seems that observing the indicators and criteria of writing attractiveness can play an important role in improving the quality of writings, increasing the tendency towards studies, promoting the study culture and using scientific findings and facilitating them. in the end, suggestions were also proposed.

Academic writing is one of the science language register that has different types, including textbooks, research articles, academic thesis, etc. The goal of this article is to compare the linguistic structures of research articles in the humanities and basic sciences. In doing so, we investigate abstracts of 30 articles in psychology, linguistics, and sociology (overall 90 abstracts), and 30 article’s abstracts of physics, biology and chemistry (overall 90 abstracts). Then we compere the structure of their complex clause from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics theorized by M. A. K. Halliday. Our research method is quantitative, and the data has recorded and calculated statistically by SPSS. In order to analyze the data, we used ANOVA, and to investigate the normality of data we used Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Findings show that the use of complex clauses in the humanities articles was more than the same use in basic sciences' articles. Complex clauses, within the humanities, were mostly used in sociology than linguistics, and in linguistics more than psychology. Within sciences, complex clauses were used in biology articles more than physics and chemistry, but this difference was not significant. On the one hand, the difference in distribution of complex clauses in the humanities and science can be attributed to stylistic variety of them. On the other hand, academic writing in the humanities pays more attention to text comprehension and cohesion than science. Finally, according to findings, it seems that the humanities tend to use logical argumentation devices in writing more than science.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the gamified-based learning environment on the improvement of fluidity and originality of creative thinking among undergraduate students. Teaching thinking unit is one of the units of the Ministry of Science for undergraduate courses in educational sciences, for which the book on teaching thinking to children and teenagers has been introduced as a resource. The current research method is quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test in 4 groups. The statistical population consisted of all undergraduate students in the field of educational sciences in the academic year of 1999-400 Urmia University, with 76 participants as a research sample in the first four experimental groups for the fluidity dimension of creative thinking (gamified learning environment) and the first control (without gamified environment). 19 participants were selected for each group. Analysis of covariance was used for data analysis in SPSS. Data analysis shows the impact of the gamified-based learning environment on the fostering of creative thinking among undergraduate students. In this way, the experimental groups performed better in terms of fluidity and originality of creative thinking than the control groups. That is, the participants of the experimental groups were able to generate both more ideas (abundance) and newer ideas than the subjects of the control group. According to the obtained research results, it is clear that the gamification approach can be used in the design of learning environments to have better learning results.

The textbook "Drama (17th-20th C.)" was published by Payam Noor Publishing House in 2018. The authors of this book are Belghis Roshan and Hossein Rahmani. The audience of this textbook is undergraduate students of English language and literature. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the quality of this book based on Mansoorian's academic book evaluation criteria. The method of conducting this research is critical analysis. According to the findings, the strengths of the book include the use of the ideas of other experts, simple and fluent writing, and the attractive design of the book cover. The weaknesses of this book include failure to consider the same structure in the presentation of material in the chapters that are related to literary courses, failure to comply with citations appropriate to English literature texts, failure to comply with the interactive nature of the book, insufficient compliance with physical characteristics, lack of necessary attention to the subject of theater. The present study results show that the authors have not fully considered the ten principles of Mansourian Criteria in their book. For this reason, the book needs to be revised to address the shortcomings in order to be more effective.