“…The use of Engagement in academic writing has been mostly examined in the production of student writers (e.g., Chatterjee, 2008;Geng, 2015;Geng & Wharton, 2016;Loghmani, Ghonsooly, & Ghazanfari, 2020;Mei & Allison, 2007;Oskoz, Gimeno-Sanz, & Sevilla-Pavón, 2018;Ryshina-Pankova, 2014;Widhiyanto, 2017), with comparatively fewer studies focusing on research writers (e.g., Cheng & Unsworth, 2016;Fryer, 2013;Loi et al, 2016;Pascual & Unger, 2010;Xu & Nesi, 2019). Although the important role of Engagement resources in producing a more successful piece of writing has been attested in certain academic genres such as doctoral and undergraduate dissertations (Chatterjee, 2008;Geng & Wharton, 2016;Loghmani et al, 2020;Widhiyanto, 2017), this role has been relatively underexplored in the research article genre as, thus far, only four studies considered published articles.…”