A discourse analysis of the macro-structure, metadiscoursal and microdiscoursal features in the abstracts of research articles across multiple science disciplines

• Sing Bik Cindy Ngai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

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• Rita Gill Singh,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Language Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

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• Alex Chun Koon

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alexkoon@cuhk.edu.hk

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4274-7052

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