چکیده:
Research Article (RA), in particular, its structure, social constructionand historical evolution, has been focused upon through a large numberof studies on academic writing over the past 20 years. This paper reportsan analysis of research article introductions from three related fields,English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Psycholinguistics, andSociolinguistics, using Swales’ CARS model. The corpus consisted of90 RAs drawn from a wide range of refereed journals in thecorresponding disciplines. The results of the analysis, although revealingmarked differences across the disciplines regarding Move 2/step 1B,indicate no marked differences in research article introductions acrossthe disciplines in terms of Move 1 and 3 along with their constituentsteps. Furthermore, no marked differences are found in terms of theextent of concordance between the CARS model and the move structureof the RAs analyzed. The results also underline the need for furtherresearch into the CARS model and provision of a more flexible andopen-ended structure, one which is pattern-seeking rather than pattern-imposing and provides the writer/researcher with the necessary optionsfor the inclusion of further steps, one in which free-standing steps arenot assigned rigid functions and positions in the overall structure but aremulti-functional or multi-purpose and can be shuffled in the overallstructure.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Moreover, considering the booming number of scholars and experts involved in these fields and the general tendency of scholarly circles to rule-bind their academic contacts that characterizes itself in their escalating flow of academic works, gaining a better understanding of the way the generic structures are organized in these disciplines, verifying the existence of any disciplinary variations, distinguishing disciplinary- based variations from genre-specific features, and exploring the applicability of Swales’ (1990) CARS model and its concordance with the RA introductions in these disciplines as the main objectives of the current study would contribute to the configuration of academic writing blueprints with specific moves and constituent parts for not only the current members of these communities but also people that seek membership in them and those non-native students that intend to Genre Analysis of Research Article Introductions across… 90 communicate with the target community through academic writing.
This obligatory inclusion of Move 1, especially its step 3, was not observed in one psycholinguistics and three sociolinguistics RAs. Considering the fact that the above-mentioned RAs all started with move 3 (Occupying the niche), it can be assumed that the writers did take moves 1, and 2 for granted and did assume that the centrality, significance and recency of the research territory, and any challenges posed to this territory in terms of counter-claims, gaps and questions are among the propositions that the members of the related academic circles are well aware of."