Background: Many research articles have been rejected by journals although authors provide the original subjects or ideas. Scholars and experts comment that papers are not well-written, but they do concrete guidelines for writing good papers. Objective: This article aims to generic structure, practical advice each section of a paper. Methods: The study used descriptive qualitative method observ...

This study intended to determine the way validity and reliability i.e., psychometric properties were reported in the Applied Linguistics research articles. The study also focused on the measurement methods applied to determine the validity and reliability of the scores derived from the tests and questionnaires in the empirical studies. The corpus of the study included 331 empirical studies deri...

This research investigates how professional authors construct their authorial identities in English articles (RAs). Sixty were selected from three disciplines, biology, linguistics, and medicine, published by native non-native reputable international journals. First-person references the analyzed qualitatively quantitatively with help of corpus linguistic methods to examine they used express, d...

: Lexical complexity is an essential construct in L2 writing studies. It has been widely utilized to evaluate quality and writers’ proficiency. Measures of lexical were considered reliable indicators quality. The more measures score, the high-quality rating writing. Since are correlated with quality, investigating Iraqi writers, comparing it other groups such as English L1 intends describe curr...

The pressure to produce work in English and to publish internationally has increased over recent years. However, a large number of non-native writers may be excluded from the web of global scholarship due to defective rhetorical organizations and discourse structures of their works. This study aimed to investigate frequency and distribution of transition markers (TMs) in introduction sections o...

as part of a wider attempt to bestow the spirit of scholarly prose upon the research articles’ rhetorical structure, academic writers invariably take advantage of quantity metadiscourse markers to avoid prolixity and live up to the implicit and explicit maxims of quantity category as suggested in gricean cp and similar models.  in order to develop a clear understanding of quantity strategies di...

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) has been conceived and developed to promote scholarly communication and to enhance the dissemination of research findings in the field of economics. RePEc offers the RePEc Author Service (RAS) where economics authors can claim authorship of the research papers that are described in RePEc archives. The data from this service forms a high-quality authorship da...

A considerable amount of research has already established that academic writing is an interactive accomplishment, the success which largely depends on appropriate writer-reader relationship. Yet, nature this relationship been subject few studies. Also scarce are studies how writers address needs their readers and so, through elaboration, manage interactions with them. Drawing a corpus 68 articl...

Cohesion is an important aspect of English texts, and to achieve that, writers utilize certain devices known as Discourse Markers (DMs). This study thus sought analyze the discussion section 12 research articles (RAs) published on two different journals (i.e., Language Teaching Research American Journal Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics) which cover contrastive disciplines huma...