Informing and engaging the public in new scientific findings is becomingincreasingly important. Graduate students are thus encouraged to develop skillin writing for an audience beyond their discipline. This article concerns writingby master’s biology of assignment-type modelled on News andViews articles. Published Views articles, which written by experts,summarise critique a newly published stu...

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in the study of interactional metadiscourse markers in different contexts. However, not much research has been conducted about the discourse of journal author guidelines, especially the use of meta-discourse markers in this genre. Therefore, this corpus-based study had three main aims: 1) to delve deep into the types, frequencies and f...