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Huiyu Wang; Ying Wei; Mingxin Yao – Written Communication, 2024
Researchers' investment in reader engagement includes the construction of an appealing abstract. While numerous studies have been conducted on abstracts' rhetorical features, scant empirical attention has been paid to negation use in academic writing. The current study seeks to narrow the research gap from a general and diachronic perspective by…
Descriptors: Science Education, Writing (Composition), Documentation, Academic Language
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Afful, Joseph B. A.; Ankomah, Christopher – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Following Swales' (1990) influential study on research article (RA) introductions, some attention has increasingly been paid to other rhetorical units of both expert and learners' writing, including titles. A key and effective discursive means through which titles are constructed and presented is the syntactic configuration. The present study,…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Syntax, Applied Linguistics, Research Reports