Acknowledging limitations and making recommendations for future research are often
presented in thesis handbooks and rubrics as obligatory moves that demonstrate an author's …

Metadiscourse refer to linguistic resources that are used to refer to the act and the context of
writing about some subject matter. Study of metadiscourse provides a gateway for …

Given the consensus that the discussion section of a doctoral thesis is a difficult text to write,
we conduct an investigation into the evaluative language choices made in a small corpus of …

From a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective, this paper reports on the findings of
an exploratory studyexamining the features of the academic texts produced by three groups …

The aim of this study was to investigate the means used by writers to establish a critical
stance in university essays. Specifically, the study identified the particular statements in …

ABSTRACT Martin and White's (2005) appraisal theory explores the ways interpersonal
meanings are expressed when researching evaluative aspects of language use. Despite …

Review genres (eg, literature review, critical review) are useful for developing students'
abilities to evaluate literature critically; they have been widely used in university contexts as …

Based on a 1.7-million-word corpus of 160 research articles from both soft and hard
knowledge fields, this book sets out to explore how a particular type of noun–namely, the …

Abstract 'Establishing a niche'has been shown to be an important rhetorical strategy in
research genres to argue for the need for new research. Limited research has focused on …

Named entity recognition (NER) is a task of proper noun identification from natural language
text and classification into various types such as location, person, and organization. Due to …