This genre-based study investigated the cross-disciplinary variations in the rhetorical structure of the Discussion sections of 104 applied linguistics and chemistry research articles (RAs), drawing upon Basturkmen’s (2009, 2012) framework and taking into account the new insights proposed by Bhatia (2004), Shehzad (2008), and Lim (2012). To this end, in addition to collecting quantitative data ...

Motivated by the need to explore the introductory sections of textbooks, the present study attempted to scrutinize three realizations of academic introductions, namely, Preface, Introduction, and Foreword in terms of their functions and potential generic structures in light of Swales’s (1990) views of genre. Moreover, the study aimed to investigate genre-mixing as an interdiscursivity element a...

Recent research has shown that academic writing is not ‘author-evacuated’ but, rather, carries a representation of the writers’ identity. One way through which writers project their identity in academic writing is stance-taking toward propositions advanced in the text. Appropriate stance-taking has proved to be challenging for novice writers of Research Articles (RAs), especially those writing ...

This study examines the generic components of Arabic wedding invitation cards issued during Covid-19 period in Jordanian society. It aims to find out role played by pandemic shaping rhetorical structure (moves and steps) these cards. The sample consists 100 electronic which were analyzed using top-down (genre analysis approach) bottom-up processing. shows that there are nine component moves rea...

Productivity in conducting research and publishing articles is the obligation of lecturers as academics. However, due to their failure follow international writing conventions, they have difficulties for publications. Various studies investigated rhetorical move articles; however, much still needs be on written by highly reputable comparing publications low-impact versus high-impact Scopus-inde...

As the leading section in a research article (RA), introduction typically leaves lasting impression on reader. It is thus necessary to make well-crafted and organized writing of successful RAs. However, lack studies has paid attention rhetorical moves non-Scopus Scopus RA introductions linguistics area. Therefore, present study first investigated realization essentiality steps from both corpora...

Along with international research in the diverse field of genre analysis academic discourse, there has been a steady increase number studies Serbian texts and comparative between other languages. However, variety researched genres, calls for papers (CFPs) have received comparatively little attention. In this study, author compares schematic structure sample 16 English conferences humanities soc...

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 i...