Academic research articles often involve the frequent use of lengthy noun phrase structures,
and those seeking to write such texts, both native and non-native alike, would need to …

The current study investigates why abstracts are written differently in theses and research
articles. To this end, 200 abstracts of PhD theses in prestigious American and British …

Abstract Knowledge of core academic vocabulary plays a major role in many gate keeping
tests for higher education and is critical to successful academic performance. While …

This paper builds on our recent work (Anderson et al., 2020; Anderson & Okuda, 2019;
Anderson et al., 2021) investigating macrostructural variation in doctoral dissertations. Two …

Metadiscourse is now established as one of the most frequently used methods for analysing
academic discourse, but one feature, frame markers, seem to have gone relatively …

While huge efforts were devoted to the identification of moves and steps in research article
Discussion sections, how writers justify the value of the new research through conflict …

This article describes a large-scale analysis of dissertation macrostructures in the Faculties
of Education at five major Canadian research universities. We draw on van Dijk (1980) and …

Los trabajos de grado y posgrado y las tesis de doctorado tienen un rol fundamental en la
cultura académica, al diseminar resultados de investigación y fortalecer la comunicación …

Among the significant tasks faced by academic writers are establishing their expertise in
negotiating their new research findings, and resolving tensions between current knowledge …

Doing a literature review to establish a research territory constitutes an important task that
both experienced and novice writers have to grapple with in research writing. While previous …