Today, there is no doubt that the communicative purposes of different sections of research reports (e.g. research articles) affect the degree of tentativeness, flexibility, and authorial engagement realized by various linguistic resources. Following this assumption, in the present book, writer tries to do a careful word by word and most importantly contextualized analysis of applied linguistics research articles in order to find out both the cross-sectional (i.e. Introduction-Methodology-Results-Discussion/Conclusion) and gender-based variations in the use of metadiscourse - as a key tool for...