The enactment of theoretical contribution in research articles (RAs) is a critical academic writing practice for showcasing the scientific progress disciplinary field. To decide how novel strengthens discipline’s current state knowledge necessitates evaluating new empirical results based upon its specific norms. Yet values utilized to formulate advancement have been little studied literature. D...

Introduction. A research article (RA) is considered to be a tool for conceptualizing new knowledge. The introduction intended demonstrate the motivation of author conduct study and justify its necessity social significance. inability author(s) write high-quality Introductio n, replacing it with description literature, reduces interest readers hinders promotion in databases. And we do not mean o...

the present study aimed to investigate the generic organization of research article introductions in local iranian and international journals in english for specific purposes, english for general purposes, and discourse analysis. overall, 120 published articles were selected from the established journals representing the above subdisciplines. each subdiscipline was represented by 20 local and 2...

An article primarily includes the following sections: introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and conclusion. Before writing the introduction, the main steps, the heading and the familiarity level of the readers should be considered. Writing should begin when the experimental system and the equipment are available. The introduction section comprises the first portion of the ma...

Recent research has shown that academic writing is not ‘author-evacuated’ but, rather, carries a representation of the writers’ identity. One way through which writers project their identity in academic writing is stance-taking toward propositions advanced in the text. Appropriate stance-taking has proved to be challenging for novice writers of Research Articles (RAs), especially those writing ...

The present study reports potential factors influencing the rhetorical patterns of research articles (RA) discussion sections. was conducted by utilizing descriptive qualitative research. researcher purposefully focused on investigating 10 bilingual writers who wrote both one English and Indonesian article. selected were those had an educational background in language teaching. interviews cover...

This study aimed to investigate the realizations of verbs’ syntactic and semantic features inmoves of applied linguistics research article introductions published in international andIranian local journals. To this end, a data of 30 research article introductions (15 published inIranian local journals and 15 in high impact international journals) was selected. The researcharticle introductions ...

Much has been written in the past few decades about the reasons why many research articles (RAs) do not find their ways into well-established academic journals. While some doubt viable comparison between "big" English-language journals (to use Swales' 2004 words) or international journals (IJs) and "small" ones published in other local languages, there is still a good many reasons to hope for t...