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Jiang, Feng; Hyland, Ken – Written Communication, 2023
Research abstracts are an increasingly important aspect of research articles in all knowledge fields, summarizing the full article and encouraging readers to access it. Graetz suggests that four main features contribute to this purpose--the use of past tense, third person, passive, and the non-use of negatives, although this claim has never been…
Descriptors: Change, Documentation, Written Language, Writing for Publication