The accumulating genre analysis studies in the ESP tradition on journal articles (JAs) and
their part-genres raise some pressing questions about the pedagogical needs for, and the …

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 …

Primarily motivated by the pedagogical question whether it is feasible to incorporate non-
native English-speaking subject specialists' support in China to address students' research …

The paper investigates the Discussion/Conclusion sections of research articles (RA) written
by English L1, English L2 and Spanish L1 writers in applied linguistics, seeking to assist …

This study analyzes the theoretical framework (TF) section of the research article. It is based
on a dataset of 20 TFs from nine linguistics journals covered by the Web of Science in its …

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 …

In the new era of informatization, big data, and artificial intelligence, the education field has
also set off a wave of informatization development of English education. Teaching writing …

By taking a mixed-methods research design and in a comparative corpus, the present study
explored evidentials use in empirical articles in four disciplines: Applied Linguistics …

Novice writers and university students often encounter problems with regard to (i) the extent
to which they should include research questions and hypotheses in their research reports …

Despite the pivotal role of 'comparing present and past research findings'(CPPRF) in both
softer and harder sciences, scant attention has been directed to how linguistic resources are …