Assess graduate students' ability to apply systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to analyze rhetorical moves and cohesive strategies in academic research article introductions. Tasks require identification of metafunctional choices (ideational: process types/participants; interpersonal: stance, modality, engagement; textual: theme/rheme, information structure), mapping genre moves (e.g., establishing territory, gap, purpose), labeling cohesive devices (reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, lexical cohesion), and explaining how these choices construct argumentation, position readers, and reflect disciplinary conventions. Responses should include short annotated extracts and evidence-based evaluations.