The relationship of syntactic complexity and rhetorical move-steps in research article discussions: A comparative analysis of Chinese and native English writers

• Yuan Zhang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cassie0848@sina.com

  Affiliation School of Foreign Languages, Shandong Normal University, Ji’nan, Shandong Province, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4692-0326

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• Zewen Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Foreign Languages, Shandong Normal University, Ji’nan, Shandong Province, China

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