“…The success of creating an academic text probably depends on metadiscourse, as it helps to create a coherent text and establish a relationship with the reader, accept different standpoints, and present convincing, wellsupported arguments. To achieve the goal, the author applies linguistic elements common to academic discourse, in other words, metadiscourse markers of text organisation, as well as specific elements of the area of science and genre (Hyland, 2015;Hyland and Tse, 2004;Šinkūnienė, 2011). According to Šinkūnienė (2013), the academic discourse researched in various aspects reveals the peculiarities of the creation and structure of academic texts, the nature of argumentation and rhetoric, suggestiveness and the features of the use of metadiscourse, which help to reveal the author's proposition and establish a relationship with the reader.…”