In this paper I explore cross-linguistic rhetorical variation in the Literature Review chapters of
30 computer science doctoral theses written by English L1 (EngL1), Spanish L1 (SpaL1) …

Intercultural studies have shown the existence of rhetorical variation in the prevalent
discourse practices of multilingual scholars and those of English-speaking scholars. In this …

Academics today are working in a time of intense pressure in research publishing, with
greater expectations, more explicit incentives and fiercer competition than ever before. In …

Driving research questions from the prevailing issues and interests and developing from
them new theories, formulas, algorithms, methods, and designs, and linking them to the …

Research articles serve not just to inform but also to convince. Consequently, authors may
be inclined to employ language to 'sell'aspects of their study. Such language may …

Covid-19, the greatest global health crisis for a century, brought a new immediacy and
urgency to international bio-medical research. The pandemic generated intense competition …

The abstract is known to be a promotional genre where researchers tend to exaggerate the
benefit of their research and use a promotional discourse to catch the reader's attention. The …

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 study explores how promotion is realized in applied linguistics (AL) research article
introductions (RAIs). We focus on one promotional strategy, claiming centrality, and examine …

Serving as a fundamental opening section, the research article introduction (RAI) provides
an entrance to a certain topic in the exploration of the unknown content of the research. It is …