Academic writing is important for writers to
 persuade readers on their claims, which is why the literature is full of
 studies aiming to improve academic writing and making suggestions regarding how
 the writing style should be. However, the missing point as to this important
 issue is that they largely investigate the issue of writing in terms of
 linguistic, and overlook the extralinguistic factors, or merely investigate a
 single issue without considering its ensuing ramifications; for example, gender
 effect on discourse. On the other hand, this study investigates gender effect
 together with its possible impact on the change of discourse and the style of
 writing which is crucial to have an impact on the audience. Also, this study
 aims to draw attention on extralinguistic factors affecting academic writing.
 This study showed that academic writing is not independent of the effect of
 gender because the discourse style of a female and male author seems to be
 different from each other. Furthermore, apart from the effect of gender,
 extralinguistic factors like social and intrapersonal parameters play an
 important role in determining the discourse of the author, and accordingly the
 writing style. This study calls further studies in order to reveal rhetoric
 differences and the effect of gender on more specific linguistic components.