Overcoming hindrance in writing research article: Advice to novices

Writing a research article: advice to beginners.

Evaluative Strategies in Iranian and International Research Article Introductions: Assessment of Academic Writing

Despite a spate of interest in the study of the Introductions of scholarly articles, thefocal genre of knowledge construction, research is yet to reach conclusive answers onthe nature of this genre. Thus, the present study analyzed research articleIntroductions, aiming to explore how the process of knowledge construction isachieved by Iranian and international writers of English research articl...

Graduate Writing Advice – Peter Southern

You might try to argue that if the instructor is the target audience for your paper then you can omit facts because it is reasonable to assume that the person setting the assignment should be very familiar with all of the facts underlying their own questions. In reality, you are writing to convince the instructor that you have a clear understanding of the complexities of the question and that y...

Interfaces of Macro and Microstructure in Academic Writing: The Case of Research Article Abstracts

Abstract Although flourishing research has been devoted to research on article abstracts, more studies are needed to unpack the relationship between rhetorical moves and their associated linguistic and rhetorical features (e.g., metadiscourse). To underpin this relationship, the current study analyzed a total of 60 research article abstracts written in English by two cultural groups in three di...

Writing qualitative article: It is time to quality improvement

Précis: This debate article highlights some questions from critics of qualitative research. Planning for proper design, philosophical background, researcher as a research instrument in the study, trustworthiness and application of findings are main debates in this field. One of the issues that have been received little attention is report of qualitative inquiry. A qualified report can an...