writing projects are socially-situated identities. the rhetorically-loaded aspects of writing, like metadiscourse marking, are more prone to carry such identities. through analyzing metadiscourse strategies employment in persian and english (as the lingua franca of academic discourse community) research articles, this study makes an attempt to find out whether persian native writers take on the...

Academic writing in higher education has been a long-standing priority, with greater need for supports noted the past decades (Wingate & Tribble, 2012) and an increasing focus on discipline-specific language order students to learn write communicate effectively as professionals their chosen fields (Grzyb et al., 2018). This study examined student learning outcomesin two writingintensive des...