'Establishing a niche'often constitutes a crucial rhetorical move in research proposals and
journal papers in various academic disciplines. Research proposals and reports submitted …

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 …

Research questions have often been regarded as an indispensable part of experimental
research dissertations, yet the ways in which the language varies in the formulation of these …

This paper reports on a genre-based analysis of the rhetorical moves in research article
introductions (RAIs) in Forestry, an established applied science discipline. Based on …

In the writing of experimental research reports in social sciences, one of the challenging
components that learners need to include is associated with procedural descriptions …

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 …

Writing the Methods section of a research report has occasionally been assumed as a
relatively straightforward component, but our experience in postgraduate supervision and …

This study investigated the rhetorical organization of Malay and English research article
discussions. A move analysis was carried out for the two sets of data of the present study …

Writers incorporate recommendations in the Discussion sections of research articles to
indicate how their findings can lead to interesting avenues for further research and useful …