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This study addresses the issue of academic writing in English by comparing
pragmatic argumentation in the writing of 40 graduate students studying at Iraqi
universities (SSIU) with the writing of 40 graduate students studying at American
universities (SSAU). In these 80 theses, six selected aspects of academic writing were
analyzed: (a) paragraph structure, (b) length and construction of sentences, (c)
organization of information in sentences, (d) vocabulary, (e) topic sentences, and (f)
discourse markers. This study seeks to go beyond the traditional and often onedimensional
analysis of pragmatics of argumentation in English academic writing to
distinguish and describe different aspects of academic writing and their results when used
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