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Montazeri, Ebtesam Abbasi; Jalilifar, Alireza; Hita, Jorge Arus – Language Awareness, 2023
Research on academic stance and evaluation has been prolific over the past few decades. Few studies, however, have focused on exploring the evaluative potential of that-constructions in shaping the structure of academic arguments. To address this lacuna, the current study aimed at exploring the potential impact of the distinct communicative…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Usage, Phrase Structure, Persuasive Discourse
Boonyuen, Tharinee; Tangkiengsirisin, Supong – Arab World English Journal, 2018
This research aims to investigate the textual organization of research article discussion sections in second language writing in order to reveal how expert writers in the discipline prefer to construct their discussion. Move analysis was conducted on a corpus of 103 research article discussion sections collected from five established journals. The…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Text Structure, Writing (Composition), Language Research
Viera, Rodrigo Tovar – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
The reader's ability to connect new information to existing knowledge is crucial when reading a text. Nonetheless, text complexity, in many ways, is more linguistic than cognitive. It encompasses the degree of sophistication, and how challenging a reading section is. Depending on the section, such difficulty may appear on the vocabulary level, in…
Descriptors: Syntax, Documentation, English for Academic Purposes, Vocabulary
Kaya, Fatma; Yagiz, Oktay – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This study aims to make a comparison between research article abstracts written by two groups in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) by Turkish scholars and non-Turkish scholars working in Anglophone countries to find the rhetorical structure they employ in their abstracts. To achieve this purpose, 390 research article abstracts, 195…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Researchers
Leong, Alvin Ping; Toh, Audrey Lin Lin; Chin, Soo Fun – Written Communication, 2018
While scholars in the field of writing studies have examined scientific writing from multiple perspectives, interest in its thematic structure has been modest. Recent studies suggest that the themes in scientific writing tend to be anchored on one or a few points of departure. There has also been an attempt at quantification using the…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Journal Articles, Biology, Scientific and Technical Information

Posteguillo, Santiago – English for Specific Purposes, 1999
Presents a linguistic description of the schematic organization of 40 journal articles from three academic journals in computing research. Results indicate the introduction-methods-results-discussion research reporting pattern can not be applied to computer science articles, with the central part (methods- results) departing most from the…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English for Special Purposes