Reporting Verbs in Results and Discussion Sections of Scientific Research Articles of Hard and Soft Disciplines

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Fereshte Dehghan ¹ , Hossein Saadabadi, Motlaq ² , Seyed Foad Ebrahimi ³

1 - English Language Department, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran
2 - English Language Department, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran
3 - English Language Department, Shadegan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shadegan, Iran

Received: 2022-11-20 Accepted : 2023-04-08 Published : 2023-10-01

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