Assess graduate students' ability to identify, classify, and critically analyze metadiscourse strategies (e.g., hedging, boosters, self-mention, engagement markers) and cohesion devices (e.g., reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunctions, lexical cohesion, thematic progression) in discipline-specific academic texts; compare cross-disciplinary patterns, evaluate their rhetorical effects on clarity, stance, and reader navigation, and propose text-level revisions and pedagogical implications grounded in corpus- or sample-based evidence.