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The invisible hands of peer reviewers play a determining role in the eventual fate of submissions to international English-medium journals. This study builds on the assumption that non-native researchers and prospective academic authors may find the whole strive for publication, and more specifically, the tough review process, less threatening if they are aware of journal reviewers’ expectation...

Since authors intend to publish their academic research in reputable journals, promoting significance is pivotal convincing journal gatekeepers for accepting articles (RAs). However, studies on promotion within RAs are still limited, and none has comparatively studied this essential issue English published international journals Indonesian highly-accredited as data sets. Thus, comprehending gap...

Despite widespread interest and research among applied linguists to explore metadiscourse use, very little is known of how metadiscourse resources have evolved over time in response to the historically developing practices of academic communities. Motivated by such an ambition, the current research drew on a corpus of 874315 words taken from three leading journals of applied linguistics in orde...

In this article we describe our experiences with designing online auction software. We present a clientserver software model for conducting standard online English auctions. The model is based on an existing auction server developed at James Cook University called the "Research Auction Server" (RAS). RAS is used to perform both simulated and real auctions to gather data on the performance of ke...

The discourse of the discussion in research articles is regarded to be of considerable significance—as in this section the findings are interpreted in light of previous research and the authors’ argumentations are put forward as a major contribution (see Hyland, 1999). For this reason, the content and structure of the discussion section have been explored in several studies; however, little att...