This Element describes for the first time the database of peer review reports at PLOS ONE,
the largest scientific journal in the world, to which the authors had unique access …

Extraction of associations of singular nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and phenotypes from
biomedical literature is a vital task in BioNLP. Recently, some methods have been …

The instruction of metadiscourse markers to L2 writers has been recommended by some
scholars to assist them in employing a certain tone in persuading readers. Nonetheless …

Abstract Background Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are among the most
important types of genetic variations influencing common diseases and phenotypes …

In the path of academic writing, authors accomplish certain interactions with their readers
through the means of meta-discourse markers such as hedges and boosters. There have …

Communication skills, especially academic writing skills in English, are vital for a successful
career in the global scientific community. Finnish engineering students, however, seem to …

The construct of hedging is a significant part of the native speaker's intuition used to indicate
different degrees of un/certainty and mark various levels of likelihood. This paper explores …

This corpus-based study investigated authorial stance in research articles; how non-native
(Turks) and (Spaniards) and native English speaker academic writers (American) expressed …

This study aimed at investigating the manifestations of objectivity in American academic
texts across different disciplines and various time spans. To achieve this, the Corpus of …

Hedges and boosters, as significant indicators of epistemic modality, have recently grasped
the attention of scholars conducting research to explore the language use in academic …