Rhetorical devices are powerful tools that can effectively communicate your message and captivate readers. Techniques like similes, metaphors, and analogies provide vivid imagery that draws readers into your narrative. Additionally, employing techniques such as repetition or alliteration can create a rhythmic...
particularly in literary texts. Stylistics is also known as literary linguistics that studies the figures of speech, images, metaphors, rhetorical devices and syntactical patterns which add variety and a distinctness to someone's writing and produce ‘expressive’ or ‘literary’ style. We have a nu...
it has been suggested that metadiscourse as a rhetorical device is constructed in a different manner in these texts. However, very few studies have sought to empirically validate this assumption. This paper investigates how research writers
The other has investigated RAs’ rhetorical aspects, such as rhetorical moves/steps (e.g., Moreno and Swales, 2018; Swales, 1990) and the use of metadiscourse markers (e.g., Hu and Cao, 2015; Hyland and Jiang, 2018). Show abstract “This is perplexing because…”: Examining the impact...
The present study aimed at investigating the frequency, form and function of the multi-objective linguistic and rhetorical device of hedging in the discussion sections of 100 qualitative and quantitative research articles where appropriate expression of scientific claims is highly welcome. As such, the ...
Mirror:Following up with the same question Introductory:“Hi, how are you?” Rhetorical:A question that doesn’t require an answer Are all of these types of questions created equal? John covered how researchers found that the positive effect of asking questions (on getting more dates) was actu...
Research on rhetorical move in abstracts has received attention in recent years. Different disciplines employ different strategies in manifesting rhetorical move in their writing. However, cross-disciplinary studies on rhetorical move in abstract still need to be done to examine the similarities and......
The use of epistemic modality markers (EMM) in making and staking claims, however, have posed significant challenges to novice writers since they are subtly done and their rhetorical functions remain occluded to emerging writers. To explore the use of these epistemic markers by scientific writers, ...
The most likely explanation for this behavior is that, although passive verbs have been used abundantly in academic writing as a rhetorical device to highlight the detachment of the narrator from the events contained in the text and as a sign of objective observation [30], the use of active ...
making claims about the size and rate of growth of a target market may be more appropriate when pitching to investors than internal customers. There are also many other rhetorical devices and methods of persuasion. However, the wider point is that many of these methods should serve as promp...