In thesis manuals and writing programs, the notions of “introduction” and “literature
review”(LR) are often used interchangeably to refer to the beginning chapters of a thesis …

During the last few decades, the worldwide phenomenon of the increasing use of English as
an international language, and the accompanying demand to learn English as an additional …

" This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the
methodological techniques used to analyze them. Three analytical approaches are …

Move analysis is a text analytical approach first developed by John Swales (1981) to
investigate the underlying generic structure of research articles (RAs) in terms of moves-and …

This book provides a rich and accessible account of genre studies by a world-renowned
applied linguist. The hardback edition discusses today's research world, its various …

Why do engineers" report" while philosophers" argue" and biologists" describe"? In the
Michigan Classics Edition of Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in …

The idea for this book evolved slowly, emerging from research taking place at several
institutions applying different approaches to a single research problem: can discourse …

This paper reports on the results of a move analysis [Swales, J.(1990). Genre analysis.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press] of 60 biochemistry research articles. First, a corpus …

The abstract found at the beginning of most journal articles has increasingly become an
essential part of the article. It tends to be the first part of the article to be read and, to some …

This paper reports an analysis of research article (RA) abstracts from linguistics journals
from two related angles: rhetorical organisation and thematic structure. Based on a small …