This paper seeks to analyze the research article abstracts across three disciplines: applied

linguistics, applied economics, and mechanical engineering. The analysis mainly focuseson the

rhetorical structure, i.e. the constituent...

. The two corpora comprising the discussion

sections of forty research articles from reliable journals were compared for amounts and types of stance. In order to find the cultural

differences between native Persian and English researchers...

This paper describes an analysis of research article abstracts written by Iranian and native English-speaking scholars of the field of Biological Science. The analysis is mainly focused on the genre structure (moves, steps) employed by the two...

Given the importance of effective communication among members of various academic disciplines, the research article has gained immense popularity among linguists, hoping to inform academic writing instructors and advanced EFL/ESL writers...

the analysis of research article introductions in terms of the frequency and function of their

lexical bundles. To this end, a corpus of 200 research article introductions by published

authors in the field of Applied Linguistics was compared...

and English research articles) in order to analyze

the metadiscourse features used in the introduction sections within this field. 20 research

articles from Knowledge Management discipline were selected for this analysis: 10 of them...

Despite the prolific amount of research into the discourse structure of the research article (RA), comparisons between the different sections of this important register have been extremely rare. This study is an attempt to analyse the structure...