This cross-disciplinary paper explores the ways in which writers promote their research articles highlights section of journals available online as a digital academic genre. A corpus from 300 was randomly selected two major domains knowledge, hard sciences and soft sciences. The contained texts fields (1) Chemistry (2) Computer Science representing (3) Linguistics (4) Management published reput...

The present study investigated disciplinary similarities and differences in the rhetorical structure of 120 preface sections drawn from three soft disciplines, namely applied linguistics, business administration, law, as well hard computer sciences, chemistry, biology. While overall results showed a five-move structure, some disciplines emphasized use particular moves. Announcing objectives Out...

The notion of genre has received a great deal of attention both in discourse analytic studies as well as in the field of ESP/EAP course design. The present paper has attempted to use genre analysis to account for the rhetorical features of research article introductions written by Iranian academics in two disciplinary fields of Education and Economics. The corpus comprised 40 research article i...

Following Swales’ (1981) definition of genre analysis many scholars have attempted to characterize good academic writing; however, this can be difficult and worrying for non-native writers. Since a well-written abstract encourages readers more effectively, the present study intended to find differences in the rhetorical structures of abstracts by TEFL students from the University of Tehran (UT)...

This study examined disciplinary rhetoric in research articles, focusing on different traditions in structuring text discourses from a metadiscourse-move analytic approach. The corpus consisted of 72 research article Introductions (RAIs): 36 in applied linguistics and 36 in chemistry. Swales’ CARS model (1990, 2004) and Hyland’s interpersonal model of metadiscourse (2005) were used as analytica...

This paper introduces a method for computational analysis of move structures in abstracts of research articles. In our approach, sentences in a given abstract are analyzed and labeled with a specific move in light of various rhetorical functions. The method involves automatically gathering a large number of abstracts from the Web and building a language model of abstract moves. We also present ...

This contrastive study focuses on the functions of first person subject pronouns in economics article introductions in French and English. It combines a qualitative analysis of the way the pronouns are used within a typical CARS (Create a Research Space) -type introduction (Swales 1990, 2004) with a more quantitative concordance-based analysis of the varying authorial roles played by the pronou...

The pandemic has intensified issues faced by the journalism community in Malaysia. This study is an attempt to help media industries upskill themselves terms of written discourse. describes rhetorical structures Malaysian newspaper reports, namely Star, moves and steps using genre theory, corpus-based discourse analysis corpus analysis. MyCORONAS (Malaysian Corpus Online Newspaper Articles) 90 ...

Research article (RA) abstracts constitute an important genre in higher education. Previous research on the RA abstract has often combined from journals same discipline, with view of revealing possible intra/inter-disciplinary, cross-linguistic, cross-cultural, etc. variations. The present study analysed empirical TESOL Quarterly, a well-recognised journal Applied Linguistics, their rhetorical ...

This paper reports on the first stage of building an educational tool for international graduate students to improve their academic writing skills. Taking a text-categorization approach, we experimented with several models to automatically classify sentences in research article introductions into one of three rhetorical moves. The paper begins by situating the project within the larger framewor...