In the tradition of Swalesian genre theory, this manuscript explores the rhetorical
composition of research article Methods sections through a top-down analysis of a corpus of …

The purpose of this study is to compare the usage of metadiscourse in English and in
Chinese research articles (RAs) published in applied linguistics journals and to investigate …

'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 present paper seeks to examine the rhetorical structure of the literature review (LR)
sections of English research articles (RAs) written by Egyptian researchers in the field of …

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 …

Not many studies have focused on the analysis of the rhetorical organization of a genre and
the respective frequency of occurrence of moves and steps as they occur in a corpus across …

While it is widely known that purpose statements are generally incorporated in dissertations
and academic journal papers, graduate student writers often encounter difficulties in the …

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 …

This article reports the macro-organizational structure of research articles (RAs) in
mathematics, based on an analysis of 30 published pure and applied mathematics articles …

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