The research on metadiscourse markers investigation in academic texts has grown very rapidly the last decade. However, interactive EFL students' writing is still relatively underexplored. Therefore, this study aims to reveal how competence of students use by comparing two groups with different grades, third-semester and fifth-semester students. design a combination quantitative qualitative meth...

The last 50 years have seen considerable changes in both research and publication practices international English-medium arenas, also witnessed a shift argument styles academic texts over these (e.g. Hyland Jiang, 2019). However, little attention was given to the rhetorical roles of nouns diachronic studies professional writing. This is surprising since writing an extremely noun-heavy register ...