In the reviewed literature, many studies have compared research articles written by L1 and L2 speakers of English. this regard, comparing English from two different linguistic backgrounds distinguishes study similar studies. While writing article abstract, writers need to calculate what weight give their arguments while showing credibility authority at same time. Given these reasons, use hedges...

The art of persuasive speaking or writing in English academic settings depends on using multi-word expressions, also known as clusters, collocations, lexical bundles, to a large extent. They are discipline-specific prefabricated word combinations that statistically tend appear together. However, many novice foreign writers have difficulty appropriate discipline-bound which has made numerous app...

To raise the authors’ awareness of using moves and move models in abstract writing, this study compares frequency, type, significant difference 100 abstracts written English by Chinese scholars international 10 prestigious journals field linguistics. The adapted Hyland’s five-move model was used as research framework, Corpus statistic software SPSS were instruments. comparisons report that tend...

s); (3) Social Sciences Abstracts search from 1984 to December 2000 (19 abstracts); (4) Health Star search from 1975 to 2000 (22 abstracts); (5) PsycINFO search from 1887 to May 2001 (39 abstracts); (6) ERIC search from 1966 to May 2001 (13 abstracts); (7) AIDSLINE search from 1980 to December 2000 (4 abstracts); (8) Biological Abstracts search from 1980 to March REVIEW ARTICLE From the Center ...

The present study aimed at finding structural variations in the translated abstracts from Persian into English and comparing them with abstracts originally written in English and published in international journals in the area of medical sciences. To do this, 64 medical article abstracts (32 in Iranian journals, 32 in international journals) were analyzed and compared on the basis of Swales’ mo...