While the tension between stylistic prescriptions and authorial practice in academic writing
has attracted much attention in recent years, one common feature which is less fully …

In preparing students for their future discourse communities, the EAP/ESP literature has
shown interest in the role of hedges in scientific literature. This interest has resulted in …

Studies on author identity and relations in academic writing have mostly focused on
research articles and relatively few studies have attended to the construction of identity in …

Stance, the extent writers intervene in a text to convey their personal attitudes and
assessments, has long been a topic of interest to researchers of academic communication …

Novice writers and university students often encounter problems with regard to (i) the extent
to which they should include research questions and hypotheses in their research reports …

Traditionally, examiners' reports on theses at the doctoral and Master's level consist of two
components: firstly, summative assessment where a judgement is made about whether the …

The doctoral thesis is the highest form of assessed student writing in the sphere of British
higher education. While it can vary greatly in form, tone, epistemology and purpose across …

In academic writing, referencing sources is more than just a strategy for demonstrating
scholarship. In thesis writing, for example, it plays an important role in making the writer's …

This article reports on a micro-level needs analysis of thesis discussion writing. An
anonymised digital survey collected information from 295 doctoral candidates about their …

There are a number of discussions in the literature about the issues that second and foreign
language students face when writing a thesis or dissertation in English. These include books …