Rhetorical Comparison in Academic English Writing: Metadiscourse Usage in Abstracts between Chinese and Malaysian Undergraduates’ Theses
This study examines metadiscourse usage in undergraduate thesis abstracts by Chinese (EFL) and Malaysian (ESL) English majors, addressing gaps in existing literature that has understudied EFL-ESL comparisons among novice writers. Drawing on Hyland’s (2005) interpersonal model, a corpus of 100 abstracts (50 from each co...