" This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the
methodological techniques used to analyze them. Three analytical approaches are …

Leveraging state-of-the-art scientometric and analytical techniques, this paper provides a
diachronic, quantitative, systematic overview of English-for-specific-purposes (ESP) …

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 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 …

Engagement is the way that writers explicitly acknowledge the presence of their readers in a
text, drawing them in through readermention, personal asides, appeals to shared …

Conducting innovative research often requires establishing and occupying a niche. In thesis
writing, the Literature Review (LR) chapter generally involves the evaluation of previous …

Academic Discourse and Global Publishing offers a coherent argument for changes in
published academic writing over the past 50 years. Demonstrating how published writing …

The present study examines the use of metadiscourse in English and Chinese research
article introductions in the field of educational psychology. The corpus for this study …

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 constitutes a multidimensional explanation of an integration of genre-based
knowledge and evaluative stance in the context of academic arguments employed in the …