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Journals across different fields of study have started publishing articles in English as an initial step towards adopting English language for scientific research. However, writing a well organized discourse is not an easy task, especially when the researchers are not proficient in English. Undeniably, well written discourse requires knowledge of how to make discourse communicative and understood to the target audience. One major device that helps achieve communicative function of the discourse is the use of the metadiscourse markers. The study aims to find out the difference in the use of metadiscourse markers among the researchers’ abstracts from distinct fields of study, namely Pharmaceutical Engineering Studies, English Language Studies and Law. The two main research questions raised in this study are: Does the use of metadiscourse markers vary in the Algerian abstract of articles across disciplines? And how does the use of metadiscourse markers vary in the Algerian researchers’ abstracts across disciplines? To answer these research questions, the explanatory sequential design was adopted. Fifteen Articles’ abstract from the aforementioned disciplines were downloaded from the Algerian Scientific Journal Platform (ASJP) and constitute the data for this study. The abstracts were first analyzed quantitatively using AntConc vesion 4.1.4 developed by Anthony (2022). The results obtained from the qualitative analysis were then qualitatively analyzed using the metadiscourse framework proposed by Hyland (2005). The results revealed that the writers of three disciplines differ in their use of interactive resources; however, they concord in the use of interactional resources. In addition, transitions emerged as the most frequent metadiscourse markers employed by the researchers in abstract writing. Understanding the use of metadicourse markers makes discourse more communicative and understandable to the reader; accordingly, developing English writing proficiency among the researchers across disciplines helps improve the quality of the journal articles.
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