... (as in the case of the Perinatology abstract)? We then take advantage of the paper by Hyland and Tse (2005) in which they note that, across the six disciplines they analysed, the main results ... introductions and conclusions rose between 1 980 and 1997 from 33% to 47% and 7% to 22% respectively. Now, suppose Hyland (or somebody else) revisits the situation in 2010, and finds that these trends ... (lexis, grammar and rhetorical structure), and the associations between these features and the writer’s communicative purpose are made explicit (Kress, 1 987 ; Swales, 1990; Swales and Feak, 2004)....