Murad Abdu Saeed
Biographic Data
| ID | 4625616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Murad Abdu Saeed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Murad Abdu |
| FAMILY NAME | Saeed |
| SIGNATURE | SAEED M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malaya |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7067-1780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Asking to advance: A discourse analytic perspective on how Socratic questioning scaffolds medical house officers’ expertise
BACKGROUND: Housemanship is a transitional phase that prepares medical graduates to become safe, independent practitioners. Learning during this phase occurs through patient-case talk with senior doctors, a hybrid interaction that serves patient care and learning. Effective case-based learning has been linked to fostering participation, dialogue and strategic language use, with Socratic questioning recognised as a key scaffolding approach. Howeve…
Branding of top Pakistani universities: A multisemiotic analysis of university logos on X
Focusing on how five top-ranked Pakistani universities construct their branding narratives on X, this research presents a multisemiotic analysis of the logos displayed on their official X profile pages. The study adopts a composite analytical framework that combines the Corporate Visual Identity (CVI) which emphasizes design elements, with principles of compositional meaning that examine the arrangement, salience and typographic semiotics as well…
A multimethod inquiry into translators’ emotions in dealing with socio-politically sensitive news texts
Incubating a scholarly writer: Academic socialization of an MA student through writing for international publication
Shaming to Emancipate: Metaphoric Bipolarisation in Jordanian Online Socio-Political Editorials
The emotion of shame in the Arab context is culturally specific and viewed in a shame-honour paradigm. The interdisciplinary study here unpacks the Jordanian sociopolitical issues which are embedded within the cultural concept of shaming using a critical metaphor method. The study on selected 97 online editorials written by Ahmad Hasan al-Zu’bi here reveals a metaphoric bipolarisation technique which conjures the notions of shame on Arab’s sociop…
Comparative Framing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict in Newspapers: An Analysis of Affect
In an era where media warfare parallels armed conflict with immense power to create or challenge narratives and shape public sentiment, this study dissects the journalistic tactics employed in reporting the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by two influential news giants: Al Jazeera English (AJE) and The Washington Post (WP). Based on the Faircloughian socio-dialectical perspective and Martin and White’s (2005) affect subsystem within the appraisal th…
Perspectivization in the thematic exploration of atypical depressive self-talk in an unmanaged online depression community on Weibo
Fear generation in the multimodal communication of sexual and reproductive health to Malaysian adolescents
There has been much debate about the state of sexuality education in Malaysia which is heavily influenced by conservative cultural and religious attitudes. To better understand the scenario, this study examines how sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) education is communicated multimodally to adolescents via printed and digital promotional materials. These materials were produced by the three main responsible agencies: the National Po…
The role of tutor's questioning in mentoring learners' responses to and uptake of feedback on writing
How teachers can provide effective feedback that promotes' students' active responses to and use of it is the question of the current debate in research. The need for teachers to formulate/compose their feedback in the form of questioning alleviates their authoritative roles in the process. Therefore, this study explored the role of teacher Google Doc-based feedback given in the form of questions on the assignments of 14 pairs of undergraduates i…
Visualization of disability in news photographs: An analytical framework
This article proposes a framework for analyzing visual discourses of disability in press photographs: the Visual Discourses of Disability (ViDD) framework. The development of this framework is based on an analysis of 670 news photographs of disability published in a Malaysian English-language mainstream newspaper. Within the ViDD, the authors propose the notion of perspectivization of disability: how elements in a photo are configured to frame th…
Collaborative writing revision process among learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in an online community of practice (CoP)
This qualitative study aimed to identify the revision strategies among learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). It also examined the focus of these strategies and learners’ participation and membership in an online community of practice (CoP). As part of shared practices in this online CoP via a Facebook group, these revision writing activities were carried out among a heterogonous group of 15 EFL learners from different EFL countries. Da…
Visualization of disability in news photographs: An analytical framework
This article proposes a framework for analyzing visual discourses of disability in press photographs: the Visual Discourses of Disability (ViDD) framework. The development of this framework is based on an analysis of 670 news photographs of disability published in a Malaysian English-language mainstream newspaper. Within the ViDD, the authors propose the notion of perspectivization of disability: how elements in a photo are configured to frame th…
Collaborative writing revision process among learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in an online community of practice (CoP)
This qualitative study aimed to identify the revision strategies among learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). It also examined the focus of these strategies and learners’ participation and membership in an online community of practice (CoP). As part of shared practices in this online CoP via a Facebook group, these revision writing activities were carried out among a heterogonous group of 15 EFL learners from different EFL countries. Da…
Visualization of disability in news photographs: An analytical framework
This article proposes a framework for analyzing visual discourses of disability in press photographs: the Visual Discourses of Disability (ViDD) framework. The development of this framework is based on an analysis of 670 news photographs of disability published in a Malaysian English-language mainstream newspaper. Within the ViDD, the authors propose the notion of perspectivization of disability: how elements in a photo are configured to frame th…
The role of tutor's questioning in mentoring learners' responses to and uptake of feedback on writing
How teachers can provide effective feedback that promotes' students' active responses to and use of it is the question of the current debate in research. The need for teachers to formulate/compose their feedback in the form of questioning alleviates their authoritative roles in the process. Therefore, this study explored the role of teacher Google Doc-based feedback given in the form of questions on the assignments of 14 pairs of undergraduates i…
Fear generation in the multimodal communication of sexual and reproductive health to Malaysian adolescents
There has been much debate about the state of sexuality education in Malaysia which is heavily influenced by conservative cultural and religious attitudes. To better understand the scenario, this study examines how sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) education is communicated multimodally to adolescents via printed and digital promotional materials. These materials were produced by the three main responsible agencies: the National Po…
Shaming to Emancipate: Metaphoric Bipolarisation in Jordanian Online Socio-Political Editorials
The emotion of shame in the Arab context is culturally specific and viewed in a shame-honour paradigm. The interdisciplinary study here unpacks the Jordanian sociopolitical issues which are embedded within the cultural concept of shaming using a critical metaphor method. The study on selected 97 online editorials written by Ahmad Hasan al-Zu’bi here reveals a metaphoric bipolarisation technique which conjures the notions of shame on Arab’s sociop…
Comparative Framing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict in Newspapers: An Analysis of Affect
In an era where media warfare parallels armed conflict with immense power to create or challenge narratives and shape public sentiment, this study dissects the journalistic tactics employed in reporting the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by two influential news giants: Al Jazeera English (AJE) and The Washington Post (WP). Based on the Faircloughian socio-dialectical perspective and Martin and White’s (2005) affect subsystem within the appraisal th…
Perspectivization in the thematic exploration of atypical depressive self-talk in an unmanaged online depression community on Weibo
Branding of top Pakistani universities: A multisemiotic analysis of university logos on X
Focusing on how five top-ranked Pakistani universities construct their branding narratives on X, this research presents a multisemiotic analysis of the logos displayed on their official X profile pages. The study adopts a composite analytical framework that combines the Corporate Visual Identity (CVI) which emphasizes design elements, with principles of compositional meaning that examine the arrangement, salience and typographic semiotics as well…
A multimethod inquiry into translators’ emotions in dealing with socio-politically sensitive news texts
Incubating a scholarly writer: Academic socialization of an MA student through writing for international publication
Asking to advance: A discourse analytic perspective on how Socratic questioning scaffolds medical house officers’ expertise
BACKGROUND: Housemanship is a transitional phase that prepares medical graduates to become safe, independent practitioners. Learning during this phase occurs through patient-case talk with senior doctors, a hybrid interaction that serves patient care and learning. Effective case-based learning has been linked to fostering participation, dialogue and strategic language use, with Socratic questioning recognised as a key scaffolding approach. Howeve…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)