Graduate – Level Research Papers Across Academic Departments: A comparative Analysis

Abstract

This study Investigates the lexical diversity, sentence structures and modality embodied in graduate-level research abstracts across various academic departments. These abstracts have been written by graduate students enrolled in the University of Hilla  and  affiliated to the  following departments: Nursing, Medical Physics, Radiology and Ultrasound, and Anesthesia. It endeavors to unravel concomitant linguistic features that grant franchise to each field of specialty. Such an approach is a handy tool that furnishes insights into the linguistic peculiarities of each discipline.