The present study has aimed at finding out whether or not students’ language background and gender bring about a distinction between the frequency and types of metadiscourse elements occurring in their papers. To this end, a dataset of 40 student papers in four series written by native male, nonnative male, native female, and nonnative female writers was analyzed quantitatively and qualitativel...

How limitations are acknowledged and discussed has a profound impact on the extent research is evaluated accepted by its intended readers. However, little attention been drawn to presentation of in EAP literature. This study seeks remedy oversight exploring how this discursive practice mediated metadiscourse, rhetorically contextualized much these rhetorical investments differ between PhD disse...

A considerable body of research has investigated the use metadiscourse in academic writing different languages, and it is assumed literature that language- culture-specific. However, little how Arab writers interact with their readers Arabic articles (RAs). Thus, following Hyland’s (2005) models, this study explores interactional introductions 94 RAs totalling 88,350 words published between 201...

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...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the use of personal and impersonal metadiscourse (md) by persian- and english-speaking writers in academic writing. for this purpose, 80 abstracts were selected (40 written by persian-speaking writers and 40 by english-speaking ones) and analyzed. these abstracts were selected from endocrinology and metabolism journals published during 2010 to...

Even though both visual and textual elements create multimodal discourse, the former have received less attention (Kumpf, 2000) than latter (Hyland, 2005) when teaching a foreign language. The hypothesis of this study is that how metadiscourse organized in academic writing may be beneficial if implemented English for specific purposes. objectives analysis are to identify patterns categories cou...