This study aimed at exploring the gender differences in the usage of interactive
metadiscourse markers in a sample of EFL academic essays written by male and female …

The current study attempted to explore the role of gender differences in applying Meta-
discourse markers in abstract and discussion sections of articles written in English by native …

The instruction of metadiscourse markers to L2 writers has been recommended by some
scholars to assist them in employing a certain tone in persuading readers. Nonetheless …

This study aims at investigating metadiscourse markers in academic essays written by male
and female students. With the goal in mind, 20 essays written by EFL female students and …

Stance and engagement features as the necessary devices in structuring the
correspondence between text, readers and social context primarily illuminate the main …

Hedges and boosters as meta-discourse markers have been the focus of many studies.
There may be cross-cultural difference among the users of these markers. This comparative …

In the path of academic writing, authors accomplish certain interactions with their readers
through the means of meta-discourse markers such as hedges and boosters. There have …

The results show that there is a greater use of interactives than interactionals: with regard to
interactive markers, transitional/logical connectives were most used, followed by endophoric …

Whether the postgraduate students in the EFL context are adequately trained to express
their authorial voice in academic writing in an appropriate tone has not been clarified …

While huge efforts have been devoted to rhetorical moves and the lexico-grammatical
features of various sections of academic research articles (RAs) across various disciplines …