Using (Swales, 1990) and (Swales, 2004) Create-A-Research-Space model (CARS) as an investigative tool and Hyland's (2005) model of metadiscourse, this article reports on a pragmatic two-level rhetorical analysis of the constituent moves and steps of research article introductions and focuses on the identification and mapping of the metadiscoursal…

EAP practitioners in advanced courses have often focused on assisting junior scholars who are non-native speakers of English with their attempts to publish in English. Today, however, university administrators increasingly rely on post-publication data such as citation records. We therefore suggest that identifying heavily cited and largely…

The process of writing journal articles is increasingly being seen as a collaborative process, especially where the authors are English as an Additional Language (EAL) academics. This study examines the changes made in terms of register to EAL writers' journal articles by a native-speaker writing centre advisor at a private university in Turkey.…

This paper is a contribution to an expanding literature on the challenges non-Anglophone academics confront in disseminating their research in English, the dominant language of international scientific communication. Drawing on a corpus of interviews with senior Spanish academics, who remain a relatively little researched academic community…

As is the worldwide trend, scientists in China face strong and increasing pressure to publish their research in international peer-reviewed journals written in English. There is an acute need for graduate students to develop the required language skills alongside their scientific expertise, in spite of the distinct division currently existing…

Multilingual scholars located outside of Anglophone contexts face growing pressure to publish in English. Evidence from a longitudinal "text-ethnographic" study exploring how 50 psychology and education scholars in southern and central Europe are responding to such pressure indicates that individual linguistic and rhetorical competence…

Summarizes problems encountered by bibliography compilers. These include authors not using their forenames or initials with consistency and dropping one initial as they advance in their writing careers. (One reference) (CK)

Discusses naming practices among academic women. Notes that the gradual shifting of names means that the academic woman uses a staged process of shifting to make sure that readers in her own specialized field will know that she is still who she was and is continuing to build up her body of research and her reputation as a scholar. (CK)

Discusses problems arising in academic writing when name changes occur, making it difficult to keep up with a person's work over time and to know that the same person was involved in two publications with names that look different. Argues that these naming practices and others must be considered in preparing students from cultures with different…

Examines the relative contributions of subculture membership in writing transactional letters. Letters accompanying articles initially submitted for publication by 26 academic native speakers of English (NSE) and 23 academic nonnative speakers of English (NNSE), and compared them with efforts to write such letters by 21 NSE and 23 NNSE…

To examine the extent to which native-English-speaker scientific writers use consistent terminology, analyzed anaphoric references in a sample of biomedical research abstracts. Results indicate straight repetition is a common anaphoric strategy; proforms are used infrequently; where straight repetition wold be inappropriate, writers typically make…

Focuses on the usefulness of corpus-based analysis to discover linguistic patterns selected and favored by a specific genre. Results show that the frameworks "the . . . of,""A . . . of," and "be . . .to," when used in medical papers, enclose restricted sets of lexical items and that the selection of specific…

Presents and discusses results of study on the specific linguistics needs of Italian scientists who must use English for science and technology for study and work purposes. Writing and listening were considered to be the most difficult skills to master. Questionnaire appears in Appendix. (LMO)

Reports on a study in which readers from eight countries evaluated and annotated the same three Discussion sections written in English by Dutch biologists. Discusses the nonnative competence in English, mother tongue interference, and non-anglophone tense conventions for reporting past events. Readers' responses to the preponderance of present…

Reporting verbs used in reporting statements, or citation, in medical journal articles are described, and their role in the discourse is examined. Choice among Discourse Verbs, Real-Word Verbs, and Cognition Verbs correlates with the rhetorical function of the report; e.g, Cognition Verbs correlate with reports of consensus views of the scientific…