Doctorate Awarded to Researcher Naseem Al-Wazeer from the English Department, Faculty of Languages

Researcher Naseem Ali Ahmed Al-Wazeer has been awarded a Doctorate degree from the English Department, Faculty of Languages at Sana’a University for her dissertation titled: “A Comparative Discourse Genre Analysis of Legal Research Article Abstracts of Interdisciplinary Fields: Medical Law and Information Technology Law,” The Viva voce took place on Thursday, 17th of Dhu al-Qa’adah 1446 AH, corresponding to May 15, 2025 AD.

The Viva committee consisted of:
* Prof. Hussein Ali Abdullah Mohammed Habtour – External Examiner – Aden University – Chairperson.
* Associate Prof. Abdulhameed Abdulwahed Alshuja’a- Supervisor – Sana’a University – Member.
* Associate Prof. Mujeeb Ali Murshid Qasim – Internal Examiner – Sana’a University – Member.

The study aimed to find out the schematic structure and discourse markers of research article abstracts in two interdisciplinary legal fields: Medical Law and Information Technology Law.

The study revealed several important conclusions, the most significant of which are:
* The existence of some statistically significant similarities and differences between the two interdisciplinary legal fields in the schematic structure and discourse markers of their research article abstracts.
* The results also show that the two fields align more with the writing style in pure science disciplines in their use of communicative discourse markers.
* Medical Law appears to resemble pure science disciplines, while Information Technology Law aligns more with humanities disciplines in its use of abstract schematic structure and interactive discourse markers.

The study recommends the following:
* Curriculum developers should develop more specialized curricula, focusing on each of the discourse strategies.
* Researchers in interdisciplinary fields should adopt a balanced approach when writing abstracts, considering the objectivity characteristic of pure science disciplines and the subjectivity prevalent in humanities disciplines.

The Viva was attended by a number of academics, researchers, students, interested individuals, as well as colleagues of the researcher and members of her family.