An investigation into the use of metadiscourse in undergraduates’ abstracts in social sciences
There is very little research on the use of metadiscourse markers in abstracts across different disciplines (especially in a single study) in the research of undergraduates as novice researchers, and little qualitative research has been done on the topic
Ruonan Lin +1 more
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An Analysis of Metadiscourse and Pragmatic Hedges in Fred Rogers’ Commencement Speech
The research on metadiscourse formerly examined the language tools used to construct a speech without looking further at the contextual-related resource.
Intan Mustika Sari
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A Study of the Research Article Discussion Section Written by Native Authors: Hyland’s (2005) Metadiscourse Model in Focus [PDF]
Academic writing in general and writing research articles in particular have long been considered a crucial mode of discourse, which is due to its challenging requirements for writers.
Jafar Asadi +2 more
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An Analysis of Interactional Metadiscourse Markers in Political Science Research Articles
The study examined the interactional metadiscourse markers used in higher and lower tiered political science research articles. The specific aspects studied were: (1) the frequencies of five categories of interactional markers; and (2) the distribution of interactional markers by rhetorical section.
Afifah, Nawawi, Ting, Su Hie
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An abstract is generally a condensed version of a much lengthier research article (RA). It plays a crucial role in academic writing by initially grabbing the readers’ attention.
Hui Geng, Han Wei
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Metadiscourse Markers in Scientific Journal Articles
This paper aimed to investigate the use of metadiscourse markers in scientific journal articles. Data of this qualitative research consisted of metadiscourse markers collected from eight journal articles of a special edition published by LLT Journal: A ...
Veronica Esti Nugrahani, Barli Bram
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Metadiscourse Markers Revisited in EFL Context: The Case of Iranian Academic Learners’ Perception of Written Texts [PDF]
Moving in line with the postulation that metadiscourse (MD) markers help transform a dry and tortuous piece of text into a coherent and reader-friendly one, the researchers in the current study attempted to investigate the effect different metadiscourse ...
Parviz Alavinia, Sahar Zarza
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The aim of this study was to develop further analyzing of metadiscourse categories in second language learners of International Program School of Muhammadiyah University Surakarta.
suhono suhono, Haikal Haikal
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BOOSTERS AS INTERACTIONAL METADISCOURSE MARKERS: A CORPUSDRIVEN COMPARATIVE STUDY
This paper examined and compared two corpora in terms of boosters, a category of interactional metadiscourse markers. Boosters strengtens the writers' existence, position, argument, claims, and commitment into the texts. One hundred articles are composed of the corpora; 50 from non-native researchers’ papers (Turkish writers), and 50 from native ...
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Metadiscourse repertoire of L1 Mandarin undergraduates writing in English : a cross-contextual, cross-disciplinary study [PDF]
This article presents a qualitative, comparative study of metadiscourse in the academic writing of two groups of undergraduate students working in two different disciplines.
Li, Ting, Wharton, Sue
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