Acknowledging limitations and making recommendations for future research are often
presented in thesis handbooks and rubrics as obligatory moves that demonstrate an author's …

Acknowledging the limitations of one's own research in empirical research article Discussion
and/or other closing sections is rhetorically challenging, and especially for those aiming to …

Despite the pivotal role of 'comparing present and past research findings'(CPPRF) in both
softer and harder sciences, scant attention has been directed to how linguistic resources are …

Research article Discussion and/or Closing (DC) sections represent the last opportunity to
convince readers of the validity of the researchers' own study, specifically its conceptual …

Genre analysis has emerged as a crucial tool in deciphering and delineating the linguistic
features of scholarly research articles. This article presents a comprehensive review of …

Introduction Notwithstanding the fact that extensive studies focused on exploring generic
structures in established disciplines, scant attention has been directed to macrostructures …

One of the basic goals of academic research is to explain the phenomena that researchers
observe through causal relations. From a discursive perspective, however, how cause-effect …

While novice writers are often expected to lucidly demonstrate the order in which different
components of their reports are arranged, it is not clear as to whether such outlines are …

There have been a considerable number of studies on the research article genre (RA) from
different perspectives of form and function. However, limited studies have examined the …

The presentation of economics research results often constitutes the climax of data-driven
research articles in the discipline, but how writers make recommendations based on their …