abstract this study focuses on realizations and discourse functions of the organizational linkers in the writing of research article abstracts from four disciplines. to this end, 120 research article abstracts from four disciplines namely, applied linguistics, economics, agriculture, and applied physics (30 from each discipline) were selected. all research article abstracts were extracted from ...

Abstract This study focuses on realizations and discourse functions of the organizational linkers in the writing of research article abstracts from four disciplines. To this end, 120 research article abstracts from four disciplines namely, Applied Linguistics, Economics, Agriculture, and Applied Physics (30 from each discipline) were selected. All research article abstracts were extracted from ...

Abstract This study focuses on realizations and discourse functions of the organizational linkers in the writing of research article abstracts from four disciplines. To this end, 120 research article abstracts from four disciplines namely, Applied Linguistics, Economics, Agriculture, and Applied Physics (30 from each discipline) were selected. All research article abstracts were extracted from ...

Following Swales’s (1981) works on genre analysis, studies on different sections of research articles in different languages and fields abound. This paper compares Applied Linguistics  research article abstracts published in Oxford University and Islamic Azad University of Tabriz in English using Swales’s (1981-1990) move structure model and Halliday’s (1994) description of transitivity process...

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...

background: despite more than a decade experience of annual student congresses in iran, major scientific writing weakness still exists in students’ abstracts submitted to the annual research congress of iran’s medical sciences students (arcimss). assessment of these abstracts can provide information on common scientific writing errors and subsequent development of abstract quality for the futur...

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...

An abstract is a concise summary of scholarly work and the first impression for editor, peer reviewer, or journal audience. When presenting writing up activity, an required submission guidelines vary depending on conference, journal, grant application. Many early career researchers pharmacists feel unequipped to summarize research activity need guidance get started with writing. A stepwise appr...

This paper investigates engagement resources employed in research article abstracts the field of English for Specific Purposes. Engagement comprise rhetorical strategies by which authors allow or dismiss alternative viewpoints. Excluding dialogic space opinions is termed contraction, while opening up possibility alternatives expansion. These are described within Appraisal theory Systemic Functi...