This research – besides developing an analytical tool – intends to compare two subgenres of the same genre, the research paper, which means that the linguistic analysis of the corpora will extend to the genre-level as well. This section describes what steps will be taken in the research towards contextualizing the results and translating them for teaching contexts, drawing on relevant literature (e.g., Bhatia, 1993; Hyland, 2000; Károly, 2007) and considering methodological principles for research in discourse analysis. A comprehensive research timeline of analyzing genre and second-language academic writing is provided in Paltridge (2014) from Swales’ key publication of the CARS (Creating a Research Space) model in 2004 to the use of textographies for researching academic writing (Starfield et al., 2014 as cited in Paltridge, 2014).