Increasing globalization is thought to be impacting business communications around the world (e.g. Connor, 2004). To assess possible impacts in one developing country, we examine contemporary written business communications in Turkey. So far so good. Now for the Move 3 (Method etc). So far they have reduced their long methods section to the following summary: The primary data used consist of ap...

for a proposal. To add relevance to the writing exercise, the use of abstracts from research articles in the LIS literature as exemplars for modeling the writing process introduces meaning into the overall learning process. Abstracts perform several major functions in the dissemination of scholarly, professional, and technical literature—all of which provide a rationale for students to learn to...

Genre analysis as an area of great concern in recent decades, involves the observation of linguistic features used by a determined discourse community. The research article (RA) is one of the most widely researched genres in academic writing which is realized through some rhetorical moves and discursive steps to achieve a communicative purpose. This study aimed at proposing a model of generic p...