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The Rhetoric Structure of Research Article Abstracts in English Studies Journals

The Rhetoric Structure of Research Article Abstracts in English Studies Journals structures published in different journals or written by students in different disciplines (e.g., Stotesbury in 2003, Samraj in 2005, Pho in 2008, and Zand-Vahili and Kashani in 2012). Although several studies have addressed the rhetoric structures of RAs across disciplines and languages, to the best knowledge of this author, no research has addressed the move structures of RAs written in different fields of English Studies and published in the same journals. To fill this gap, this exploratory study addresses the question of how similar or different the rhetoric structures of RA abstracts published in European journals of English Studies are. Special attention is paid to the two markedly different fields in English studies, namely linguistics and literature. THE RHETORIC STRUCTURE OF RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSTRACTS 2. Literature review 2.1 Abstract as a genre and its communicative purposes Abstracts can be considered as a distinct genre in academic writing. As Lorés (281) states, "there seems to be general agreement on three ways in which research abstracts differ from RAs. ey differ in their function, in their rhetoric structures and in their linguistic realizations". John Malcolm Swales defines genre the following way: A genre comprises a class of communicative events, the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Prague Journal of English Studies de Gruyter

The Rhetoric Structure of Research Article Abstracts in English Studies Journals

Doró, Katalin
Prague Journal of English Studies , Volume 2 (1) – Dec 1, 2013
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structures published in different journals or written by students in different disciplines (e.g., Stotesbury in 2003, Samraj in 2005, Pho in 2008, and Zand-Vahili and Kashani in 2012). Although several studies have addressed the rhetoric structures of RAs across disciplines and languages, to the best knowledge of this author, no research has addressed the move structures of RAs written in different fields of English Studies and published in the same journals. To fill this gap, this exploratory study addresses the question of how similar or different the rhetoric structures of RA abstracts published in European journals of English Studies are. Special attention is paid to the two markedly different fields in English studies, namely linguistics and literature. THE RHETORIC STRUCTURE OF RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSTRACTS 2. Literature review 2.1 Abstract as a genre and its communicative purposes Abstracts can be considered as a distinct genre in academic writing. As Lorés (281) states, "there seems to be general agreement on three ways in which research abstracts differ from RAs. ey differ in their function, in their rhetoric structures and in their linguistic realizations". John Malcolm Swales defines genre the following way: A genre comprises a class of communicative events, the

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Prague Journal of English Studies – de Gruyter

Published: Dec 1, 2013

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