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 …

Writing a Master of Arts (MA) thesis is a challenging task for postgraduate students. This
complexity is of great significance when one is writing in his/her second language. From this …

Rhetorical moves in academic writing are interesting topics and strategic issues in
linguistics. Many studies have investigated the moves in all sections of research articles for …

The abstract is one of the most important sections in a research article (RA) because it is the
first section researchers read to determine whether it is relevant to their research. The …

This study aims to investigate the diachronic change of Master thesis abstracts written by
Chinese students in the applied linguistics. A corpus of 1000 English abstracts was built with …

The existence of abstract is compulsory within a research article (RA). Abstract is a summary
or brief overview that describes entire content of RA. At a glimpse, abstract tells readers what …

The goal of this reand search is to look into how interactive and interactional Meta discourse
elements are used in applied linguistics and engineering PhD theses abstracts. The current …

This study used a genre-based approach within a systemic functional linguistics (SFL)
framework to assess the development of English learners 'understanding of the discussion …

Taking a contrastive, genre-based approach, this study explores differences and similarities
in terms of move-structure and metadiscourse use of L1 and L2 thesis abstracts in the field of …

Content analysis of language research is one of the very widely researched topics
worldwide. However, in the Philippine context, few studies and systematic reviews on the …