As English is the leading medium of communication in academia, publication in international
journals presents a goal and a challenge for some non-Anglophone researchers. Research …

Driving research questions from the prevailing issues and interests and developing from
them new theories, formulas, algorithms, methods, and designs, and linking them to the …

The significant purpose of the author in the Introduction of a research article is to convince
the reader about the importance of the work to be presented. To achieve this end, a …

Genre studies allow researchers to observe the repeated communicative functions and their
linguistic components in different genres (Brett, 1994). Writing the introduction section is a …

Making appropriate reference to other texts is an essential feature of successful academic
writing (Hyland, 2000, Myers, 1990). Writers are expected to integrate others' ideas into their …

This paper presents a rhetorical analysis of the Introductions of Computer Science (CS)
research articles from a specialized corpus with reference to “Announcement of Principal …

As English is the leading medium of communication in academia, publication in international
journals presents a goal and a challenge for some non-Anglophone researchers …

Readers' decisions about the relevance and significance of research presented in a journal
article are often influenced by the introduction section. Several factors contribute to authors' …

Just like scaffolding for any building structure which involves robust connections qf various
frames and planks by bolts and couplers, the concept of genre provides a framework around …

This research aims to investigate the rhetorical structures of the introduction sections of
Pakistani research theses at postgraduate level. The corpus of study contains 32 …