Volume 2 - Issue 2 - December 2018
Latest issue of Journal of Applied Languages and Linguistics
Research Article
Title: A genre analysis of moves in Research Article Abstracts Published in National University
of Modern Languages Journal of Critical Inquiry
University of Stirling, UK.
Published online: 31 December 2018, pp. 16-25
Citation: Hussain,M. (2018). A genre analysis of moves in Research Article Abstracts Published in National University of Modern Languages Journal of Critical Inquiry. Journal of Applied Languages and Linguistics, 2(2), pp.16-25.
The abstract is an important part of any research articles. In recent years, many pedagogical approaches have realized that lack of proper writing support in writing research article abstract can frustrate the writers and make their research paper less-effective.
The present study present rhetorical move analysis of the research article abstracts by employing Hyland’s 2010 model of move analysis. The data was collected from the two volumes of the National University of Modern Languages’ Journal of Critical Inquiry. The results show that the purpose move is the most frequent move, while the conclusion move is the most lest frequent in the abstract published in the Journal of Critical Inquiry. The present study suggests that the researchers use the purpose move in their abstracts with the highest frequency and are less inclined to use conclusion move.
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Keywords: Rhetorical Move, Genre, pedagogy, Hayland’s model of move analysis, research article