When assessing student essays, educators look for the students’ ability to present and pursue well-reasoned and strong arguments. Such scholarly argumentation is often articulated by rhetorical metadiscourse. Educators will be necessarily examining metadiscourse in students’ writing as signals of the intellectual moves that make their reasoning visible. Therefore students and educators could be...

The relevance of automatically identifying rhetorical moves in scientific texts has been widely acknowledged in the literature. This study focuses on abstracts of standard research papers written in English and aims to tackle a fundamental limitation of current machine-learning classifiers: they are mono-labeled, that is, a sentence can only be assigned one single label. However, such approach ...

The rapid withdrawal from publication of a research article by a Spanish immunogeneticist and eight colleagues from Spain and Palestine was called "unprecedented" by one publishing ethics expert and was widely discussed during the winter of 2001 and 2002. The present paper analyzes the text of the retracted article, focusing on features that are often examined in English for specific purposes c...

Medical discourse has recently attracted much scholarly attention. However, few studies have concentrated on both the overall rhetorical structure of the research article (RA) and the specific lexicogrammatical features of the texts, particularly English-Persian contrastive studies on medical RAs. Relying on Nwogu’s (1997) framework, the present study aimed at providing a macroanalysis of the I...

The use of appropriate rhetorical moves (RMs) and meta-discourse markers (MMs) improve the argumentative persuasive force academic texts, such as essays, thesis, seminar papers, articles. However, authors from a different language background level expertise may RMs MMs when writing in foreign language. This study is aimed at describing how Indonesian Applied Linguistics their research article a...

Genre analysis as an area of great concern in recent decades, involves the observation of linguistic features used by a determined discourse community. The research article (RA) is one of the most widely researched genres in academic writing which is realized through some rhetorical moves and discursive steps to achieve a communicative purpose. This study aimed at proposing a model of generic p...

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,...