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Welcome to the English for science wiki! This wiki was compiled by a group of tertiary students and teachers in Hong Kong, using corpus tools in order to explore the discourse of science. The wiki includes descriptions of the main functional moves in an experimental research article with examples of functional lexical phrases that can be used in each move. Each section contains a number of example sentences, with key functional lexis underlined and a link to the original article where the sentence was originally found.

Please feel free to browse the wiki and see whether you can use any of the vocabulary examples in your own scientific writing. Unfortunately, there are still some gaps in the resource, but we will try to plug these up over time. If you would like to submit any examples of your own, please send an email to elhafner (at) cityu (dot) edu (dot) hk. We hope you find the resource useful!


 * Introduction
 * Methods
 * Results
 * Discussion
 * Conclusion