there is considerable agreement among linguists that thematic analysis offers writers insights into manuscripts that may be rejected by international journals due to thematic organization problems. whereas many comparative studies have provided valuable information about thematic progression (tp), the role of peripheral themes (pts) has almost been neglected. using the revised model of the tp p...

Since authors intend to publish their academic research in reputable journals, promoting significance is pivotal convincing journal gatekeepers for accepting articles (RAs). However, studies on promotion within RAs are still limited, and none has comparatively studied this essential issue English published international journals Indonesian highly-accredited as data sets. Thus, comprehending gap...

This study identified the use of evaluative ‘that’ stance embedded in rhetorical move structures applied linguistics research articles discussion sections written English and published international Thai journals. The aimed to investigate uses for observing practices both data was gathered from 80 articles. moves were analyzed. Occurrences counted within move-step. results revealed that journal...

The discourse of the discussion in research articles is regarded to be of considerable significance—as in this section the findings are interpreted in light of previous research and the authors’ argumentations are put forward as a major contribution (see Hyland, 1999). For this reason, the content and structure of the discussion section have been explored in several studies; however, little att...

There is considerable agreement among linguists that thematic analysis offers writers insights into manuscripts that may be rejected by international journals due to thematic organization problems. Whereas many comparative studies have provided valuable information about thematic progression (TP), the role of peripheral themes (PTs) has almost been neglected. Using the revised model of the TP p...

despite the importance of hedging in academic productions, its use in different disciplines and genres has been given little attention (hyland, 1998; crystal, 1995). more precisely, the role of different genders as contributors to this social phenomenon (i.e., research articles) has been taken as neutral, as if gender is inconsequential in identity construction. the studies done in english sugg...

This genre-based study investigated the cross-disciplinary variations in the rhetorical structure of the Discussion sections of 104 applied linguistics and chemistry research articles (RAs), drawing upon Basturkmen’s (2009, 2012) framework and taking into account the new insights proposed by Bhatia (2004), Shehzad (2008), and Lim (2012). To this end, in addition to collecting quantitative data ...