Hooking the reader: a corpus study of evaluative that in abstracts

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Metadiscursive nouns: Interaction and cohesion in abstract moves (2017, background): “Research has also focused on move structures (e.g. Dos Santos, 1996; Hyland, 2004; Lorés, 2004), and their linguistic features (e.g. Bondi & Lorés Sanz, 2014; Hyland & Tse, 2005).”
As can be seen: Lexical bundles and disciplinary variation (2008, background): “…modifier fragments (the number of, the relationship between the, one of the most important), preposition + of phrase fragments (in terms of, on the basis of, at the beginning of the), as well as anticipatory it fragments (it can be, it was found that, it should be noted that) (Hyland & Tse, 2005).”
Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: Complexity, elaboration, explicitness (2010, background): “292) Keen (2004) ‘‘Myhill (1999) identifies elaboration and use of subordination as features which tend to characterise high quality Grade A writing [.”
Personal and Impersonal Authorial References: A Contrastive Study of English and Italian Linguistics Research Articles. (2010, background): “As many scholars have observed (MacDonald, 1992; Hyland, 2000; Becher and Trowler, 2001; Hyland and Tse, 2005) the decision to frame one's arguments in a rather objective and impersonal style is related to the epistemological beliefs of the disciplinary community which writers belong to.”