Exploring academic discourse has become a phenomenal enterprise of discourse analysts
(Hyland, 2008 & Wennerstrom, 2006) in general and genre analysts (Shehzad, 2010, 2011; …

Aunque el compromiso autoral puede expresarse de variadas formas (Bolívar, Beke y Shiro
2010), en este trabajo examinamos cómo se manifiesta a través de los pronombres …

Propositions such as 'I don't want to speak like a native speaker of English'(Choi, Language
and Education 30: 72–85,), appearing in the title of a study focusing on the critical inquiry of …

Writing discussion in dissertation, though has textual generics, yet is influenced by the
context, research domain, and writers' linguistic competence. In Pakistan, graduates, despite …

Dissertation introductions (DIs) have received on-going attention because they are
considered to be the most challenging and difficult part of an academic text for graduate …

The study of research abstracts has gained significant scholarly attention as part of genre
studies due to the communicative importance of abstracts in constructing academic …

Press releases are the pieces of writing issued by companies or institutions to communicate
information to the news media community and the general public. There has been limited …

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 …

This research study analyzed the Introduction chapters of PhD theses in education that were
available on the Higher Education Commission (HEC). Pakistan repository website to find …

Metadiscourse is a recent enterprise of applied linguists through which the text-internal
nature of discourse is explored with reference to persuasion, negotiation, and engagement …