چکیده:
This study investigated the cross-disciplinary variations in the generic structure of Introduction sections of 52 Applied Linguistics and 52 Chemistry research articles drawing upon Swales’ (2004) framework, taking into account the new insights proposed by Bhatia (2004), Shehzad (2008), and Lim (2012, 2014). To this end, in addition to collecting quantitative data and conducting frequency and Chi-square analyses, a number of semi-structured interviews were conducted with some Chemistry scholars and Applied Linguistics (ALs) experts for triangulation purposes. The results of the quantitative data analysis indicated that the two disciplines showed significant variations in the frequency with which they used some steps and sub-steps to realize the moves. The results of the qualitative content analysis of the interviews also helped understand why authors in each discipline might use a specific move/step more than the others and why a move/step was frequently used by the authors in one discipline, but completely absent in another. Finally, based on the results, some implications were presented to postgraduate students and novice researchers in Chemistry and Applied Linguistics to help them write effective research articles in their field. The findings of the study could also provide some practical implications for the EAP teachers to help their students become better writers. In addition, some suggestions were presented to genre analysts to help them obtain more dependable results when analyzing the generic structure of various sections of research articles.
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Chemistry Research Articles Hassan Soodmand Afshar*, Mehdi Doosti, Hossein Movassagh, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran Abstract This study investigated the cross-disciplinary variations in the generic structure ofIntroduction sections of 52 Applied Linguistics and 52 Chemistry research articlesdrawing upon Swales‟ (2004) framework, taking into account the new insightsproposed by Bhatia (2004), Shehzad (2008), and Lim (2012, 2014).
In this regard, analyzing 30 Management RAIs regarding their niche establishment using Swales‟ (1990, 2004) CARS model, Lim found complete cycles (consisting of M1, M2, and M3) in the majority of the Management RAs. Concerning the second step (Adding to what is known), he argues that writers are required to state directly and overtly the need to continue a research tradition through the use of specific linguistic mechanisms.
g. , Lim, 2010, 2012; Ozturk, 2007; Samraj, 2005; Saz Rubio, 2011; Stoller & Robinson, 2013), might be considered large enough to adequately capture the move structures used in RAIs. The four ALs journals from which we selected the articles to be scrutinized in this study were all recognized to be high impact journals which were mostly devoted to problems of foreign language teaching and learning and mainly published full-length quantitative research studies.
Discussion Drawing upon Swales‟ (2004) framework and considering the more recent research findings (Bahtia, 2004; Lim, 2010, 2014; Shehzad, 2008), we investigated the cross-disciplinary variations in the generic structure of the introduction sections of ALs and Chemistry RAs. To analyze the rhetorical structure of the RAs in the present study, we not only paid attention to move sequences, but we also took into account the frequency of occurrence of the moves, steps, and sub-steps.