چکیده:
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 introductions (20 from Education, 20 from Economics fields). Applying John Swales’ (1990) CARS model and based on the notions of generic move, and step, our analysis showed a high degree of compatibility between our data and Swales’ model. The only marked difference was that the frequencies of occurrence of moves 1 and 2 were significantly higher than that of move 3. Some minor differences were also identified and discussed. The findings may be of some value both to contrastive rhetorical studies and genre analytic studies. They may also be practically useful for EAP syllabus designers in developing genre-oriented EAP material, and EAP teachers in postgraduate courses aiming at developing academic writing skills.
خلاصه ماشینی:
A Cross-disciplinary Genre Analysis of Rhetorical Features of Research Article Introductions Written by Iranians Farzad Salahshoor a Assistant Professor, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University Mahnaz Sharifi b February 2013 Abstract 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.
). Within this conceptual framework, Swales ( 1981) himself, studied the genre of research article introduction across three different academic disciplines.
However, due to criticism by Crooks (1986), a revised version (Swales, 1990) with a three-move pattern replaced the early model as illustrated in the following: Move 1: Establishing a Territory Step 1: claiming centrality and/or Step 2: making topic generalization Step 3: reviewing items of previous research Move 2: Establishing a Niche Step IA: counter-claiming Step 1B: indicating a cap Step 1 C: question raising Step 1D: continuing a tradition or or or Move 3: Occupying the Niche Step 1A: outlining purposes Step 1B: announcing present research Step 2: announcing principal findings Step 3: indicating research article structure and/or Swales (1990, p.
And finally, Loi' s study (201 O);: ··· which compared research article introductions written in English and Chinese, revealed significant difference in terms of the number and order of moves and steps employed by Chinese writers from the CARS mode].