Communicative moves and lexical cohesion patterns (LCPs), as mounting evidence shows, are two important indicators in writing and publishing the RAs. However, the interaction between these two crucial elements and the contribution of this interaction to the failure or success of the RAs have not been given due attention to date. Having this in mind and based on a sound theoretical framework, at...

This discourse study examines the rhetorical structures of RA introductions in Sinta 1 indexed ELT journals by implementing Swales’ (2004) CARS model as framework for analysis. A corpus consisting 36 was randomly collected from three SINTA journals, namely TEFLIN, SiELE, and IJAL, 2019-2021. The analysis done using top-down findings indicated that all moves, i.e., Move Establishing a territory,...

This paper explores sub-disciplinary variations and generic structure of research article introductions (RAIs) within three sub-disciplines of applied linguistics (AL); namely, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Psycholinguistics, and Sociolinguistics, using Swales’(1990) CARS model. The corpus consisted of 90 RAIs drawn from a wide range of refereed journals in the corresponding sub-discipli...

A digraph is nonderogatory if its characteristic polynomial and minimal polynomial are equal. Relations between nonderogatory digraphs and their automorphism groups have appeared in the literature (see [1] and [2, Theorem 5.10]). More recently, several articles (see, e.g., [1, 3–8]) address the problem of determining when certain operations between nonderogatory digraphs are again nonderogatory...

In this article I provide a brief theoretical perspective on our current understanding of the dynamic scaling phenomena in nonequilibrium epitaxial growth with the emphasis on the extensively studied ultrahigh vacuum thin film deposition growth, such as MBE growth, where the main growth front smoothening mechanism competing against the surface kinetic roughening induced by inherent shot noise f...

Purpose: To provide a brief summary of the paper. Along with the title, this is one of the most important components of a research article. After reading the title, researchers commonly scan the abstract to determine what the authors found, and based on this information they often decide if they will read the rest of the paper. Content: The abstract is written as a mini-paper, i.e., it contains...

This paper presents a method for critically reading a research article. Emphasis is placed on the specific format of the question being asked, the control of variables to ensure internal and external validity, selected basic rules for applying statistics, and the justification for specific conclusions drawn by the investigator. The method is designed to be clinically relevant with the final eva...

In this paper, we analyze citation contexts and characterize the different sections of scientific articles in terms of the verbs that appear in citation contexts. We have performed Factorial Correspondence Analysis (CA) using the four sections of the IMRaD (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion) structure as categories. Our dataset contains about 80,000 research articles published in th...