ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the differences between the four journals, using both corpus and discourse analytic methods. The four journals are: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, Global Environmental Change, Plant Science, and Resource and Energy Economics. The chapter examines the linguistic features of the headings. The headings construct the readers as active members of the discourse, and the headings are presented as more than labelling acts that follow a convention – they are a part of the dialogue that is established in the article. The Introduction – Methods – Results – Discussion article is a conventionalised text type that performs the function of allowing scientists to communicate their research concisely. The fact that an article is expected to follow this convention allows the reader to hold expectations of how the article will be framed and how it will develop.
