International postgraduate students have been found to face numerous difficulties
in writing academic discourse. Writing for academic journals is highly competitive.
Even if you overcome the first hurdle and generate a valuable idea or piece of
research, there is the problem to sum it up in a way that will capture the interest of
reviewers. There’s no simple formula for getting published - editors’ expectations
can vary both between and within subject areas. But there are some challenges that
will confront all academic writers regardless of their discipline. As writers and
audiences become more linguistically and culturally diverse, the ways that English
is composed at the linguistic, rhetorical, and discursive levels are changing,
resulting in an ongoing search for adequate theoretical frameworks to describe the
reality of academic and professional writing practices. In this research, we will
discuss why many research projects that have been presented in abstract form are
never published as full articles. We also discuss it from intercultural rhetoric and
the issues Iranian post-graduate students face while submitting articles.