The study reported in this article investigated the linguistic challenges that students face at
an English medium instruction (EMI) university in Turkey. The aims of the study were (1) to …

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

About thirty years ago, Biber's (1988) Variation across Speech and Writing revolutionized
our understanding of registers by introducing factor analysis for the extraction of latent …

While there have been many investigations of academic genres, and of the linguistic
features of academic discourse, few studies have explored how these interact across a …

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

Medical students often lack key skills in academic writing, yet good academic writing is often
a pre-requisite for employment, promotion and enculturation into the profession. This article …

This collection brings together the editors' previous research with new work on the Register-
Functional (RF) approach to grammatical complexity, offering a unified theoretical account …

One of the approaches to exploring the interactional and persuasive nature of academic
writing is through the use of stance features in texts. Adopting a corpus-based analysis, this …

UK higher education institutions have widely adopted intensive pre‐sessional programmes
(PSPs) encompassing English for academic purposes provision to enhance their …

This study explores the longitudinal development of L2 academic 'stance'features resulting
from instruction in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at a university in Hong Kong. We …