Primary Literature

• Al-Shujairi, Y. B. (2021). Review of the discussion section of research articles: Rhetorical structure and move. LSP International Journal, 8(2), 9-25.

• Armstrong, T. (2011). Reader-friendliness and feedback: German-L1 scholars’ perceptions of writing for publication in English. Journal of academic writing, 1(1), 153-164.

• Chien, S. C., & Li, W. Y. (2022). Problems of writing the doctoral dissertation discussion section: Advisors' and their doctoral students’ perspectives from natural and applied sciences and social sciences. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 60, 101183.

• Dworkin, J. D., Linn, K. A., Teich, E. G., Zurn, P., Shinohara, R. T., & Bassett, D. S. (2020). The extent and drivers of gender imbalance in neuroscience reference lists. Nature neuroscience, 23(8), 918-926.

• Flowerdew, John. "The linguistic disadvantage of scholars who write in English as an additional language: Myth or reality." Language Teaching 52, no. 2 (2019): 249-260.

• Gosden, Hugh. "Research writing and NNSs: From the editors." Journal of Second Language Writing 1, no. 2 (1992): 123-139.

• Harris, M., Macinko, J., Jimenez, G., Mahfoud, M., & Anderson, C. (2015). Does a research article's country of origin affect perception of its quality and relevance? A national trial of US public health researchers. BMJ open, 5(12), e008993.

• Hyland, K. (2019). Participation in publishing: The demoralizing discourse of disadvantage. Novice writers and scholarly publication: Authors, mentors, gatekeepers, 13-33.

• King, M. M., Bergstrom, C. T., Correll, S. J., Jacquet, J., & West, J. D. (2017). Men set their own cites high: Gender and self-citation across fields and over time. Socius, 3, 2378023117738903.

• Nurie, Y. (2019). Doctoral Students' Perceived Needs and Preferences for Supervisors' Written Feedback. PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 56, 112-144.

• Ruiying, Y., & Allison, D. (2003). Research articles in applied linguistics: Moving from results to conclusions. English for specific purposes, 22(4), 365-385.

• Shen, L., Carter, S., & Zhang, L. J. (2019). EL1 and EL2 doctoral students’ experience in writing the discussion section: A needs analysis. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 40, 74-86.

• Shi, Ling. "Writing in two cultures: Chinese professors return from the West." Canadian Modern Language Review 59, no. 3 (2003): 369-392.

• Sionis, Claude. "Communication strategies in the writing of scientific research articles by non-native users of English." English for Specific purposes 14, no. 2 (1995): 99-113.

• Williams, Joseph M., and Ira Bruce Nadel. Style: Ten lessons in clarity and grace. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1989.

• Wolfe-Simon, Felisa, Jodi Switzer Blum, Thomas R. Kulp, Gwyneth W. Gordon, Shelley E. Hoeft, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, John F. Stolz et al. "A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus." Science 332, no. 6034 (2011): 1163-1166.

Books, Blogs, and Reports

• Classic article on Science Writing

• The curse of knowledge, blog post

• Talk by Steven Pinker about ‘why so much academic writing is terrible’

• How to write a theoretical ecology paper that people will cite (posted on: https://ellner.eeb.cornell.edu/CitedPapers.pdf)

• Joshua Schimel “Writing Science” 2012 Oxford University Press