Users' guide to detecting misleading claims in research: Discussion section helps redress the balance

Users' guide to detecting misleading claims in research: misleading claims may be symptom of even more serious flaws.

“Based on the data in …” Cohesive markers in Results and Discussion Section of Research Articles

Cohesive frames are linguistic elements that precede the grammatical subject in the main clause. This study investigated the frequencies and communicative purposes of cohesive frame types in results and discussion section of research articles from 4 disciplines. To run this study, 40 results and discussion sections of research articles were selected from 4 disciplines, namely Applied Linguistic...

Introduction to the Discussion Section

As soon as the aim of natural language systems extends beyond the mere processing of isolated sentences or interaction with the user through isolated questionanswer pairs, it becomes necessary for the system to maintain some sort of record of both the user's and the system's previous dialog contributions. In its simplest form, such a record would contain the objects being mentioned, and the rec...

Grammatical Subject in Results and Discussion Section of Research Articles: Disciplinary Variations

Frequencies and discourse functions of grammatical subject types were investigated in a corpus of forty results and discussion sections selected from four disciplines (Applied Linguistics, Psychology, Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering). The results and discussion sections were selected from research articles that were published in 2008-2012 issues of prestigious high journals of ...

A Corpus-based Study of Lexical Bundles in Discussion Section of Medical Research Articles

There has been increasing interest in utilizing corpora in linguistic research and pedagogy in recent years. Rhetorical organization of different sections of research articles may appear similar in various disciplines, but close examination may show subtle differences nonetheless. One of the features that has been at the center of attention especially in recent years is the idiomaticity of a di...