What, which and where: examining self-mention markers in ISI and Iraqi local research articles in applied linguistics

Traditionally, academic writing has been considered impersonal and objective. However, the use of first-person pronouns can have value when used as a rhetorical strategy that promotes a researcher’s claims. This study attempted to identify self-mention markers (e.g. ‘I’, ‘we’, ‘the author’, ‘the researcher’) in sections of various published research articles (RAs). A comparison was made between Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and...