An abstract is the selling point of a research article (RA), due to fact that it can help readers and particularly journal reviewers in selecting which RAs are remarkable be read further accepted. A plethora has analyzed rhetorical moves linguistic features accepted RAAs. Nevertheless, almost none them have explored rejected one, based on authors’ affiliation. Invoking Hyland’s (2000) move mode...

Textbooks considered as one of the most important genres of academic writings would guarantee effective teaching and learning in EFL/ESL courses. Since textbooks are gaining more and more importance, the knowledge of their rhetorical organization that provides learners and teachers with efficient use of their content seems necessary. This article describes the rhetorical organization of the tex...

This exploratory study investigated the rhetorical structure of three research proposals written by students who successfully sought entry into MA/PhD programs in applied linguistics at a Singapore university. Despite the abundance of research on published academic texts (such as the research article), not much is known about research proposals written for degree admission purposes, which are i...

In order to build robust automatic abstracting systems, there is a need for better training resources than are currently available. In this paper, we introduce an annotation scheme for scientific articles which can be used to build such a resource in a consistent way. The seven categories of the scheme are based on rhetorical moves of argumentation. Our experimental results show that the scheme...

Aim/Purpose: To provide a research proposal writing framework to help doctoral students argue and motivate their efforts at furthering the existing knowledge available understand some phenomenon or theory. Background: I discuss how cognitive process theory of science heuristic can lead set rhetorical moves question prompts that use develop content proposals. Methodology: searched literature on ...