Writers incorporate recommendations in the Discussion sections of research articles to
indicate how their findings can lead to interesting avenues for further research and useful
applications in real life, but it is not clear how such recommendations are positioned and
realised using different language resources in their attempt to get their papers published.
Based on a genre-based move analysis of 60 Forestry research articles, we have found that
such recommendations appear in a vast majority of the Forestry Discussion sections while …