Textual Comparison Between Iranian and English Recommendation Letters

This study has aimed at comparing the textual features including digression, textual symmetry, integration, advance organizers, enumerative sentences, bridge sentences, and topic sentences between Iranian and English recommendation letters. Generally, 47 Iranian and non-Iranian recommendation letters were collected and considered. The non-Iranian professors were Canadian, American and British nationalities. Having analyzed the features, it has been concluded that there are significant differences between these two groups of letters regarding textual symmetry and topic sentences, while there are no significant differences regarding digression, data integration, advance organizers, enumerative sentences, and bridge sentences.