... structure of dissertation acknowledgments, English for Specific Purposes ( 23) 3: 30 3-24 Hidden influencers and the scholarly enterprise 55 Hyland, K and P Tse (2004) “I would like to thank my ... issue of ACK in academic writing, we can cite, on the one hand, Hyland’s research on the generic move structure of ACKs in PhD and MA theses (Hyland, 20 03, 2004; Hyland and Tse, 2004), and, on the ... research on ACK behavior in Italian- and English- written research articles (Giannoni, 1998; 2002) and academic books (Giannoni, 2005, 2006a and 2006b) For information and social scientists, ACKs are...