Writing Abstracts for Research Articles: Towards a Framework for Move Structure of Abstracts
| العنوان: | Writing Abstracts for Research Articles: Towards a Framework for Move Structure of Abstracts |
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| المؤلفون: | Ho Yoong Wei, Abu Bakar Razali, Arshad Abd Samad |
| المصدر: | World Journal of English Language. 12:492 |
| بيانات النشر: | Sciedu Press, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Linguistics and Language, Literature and Literary Theory, Language and Linguistics, Education |
| الوصف: | The abstract as a sub-genre of the research article has been explored in many studies, particularly with regards to its rhetorical move structure. However, these studies have mainly focused on the macro-structures of abstracts in terms of the main moves present based on pre-existing models by Swales (1990), Dos Santos (1996), and Hyland (2000). Studies analyzing the micro-structures of abstracts in which the sub-categories under each main category are lacking. This study identifies the main moves of abstracts, the steps and sub-steps within each move to propose a comprehensive framework for abstract structure. Using a move based analysis, 100 research article abstracts in the field of social science and humanities were analyzed at the sentence level, where each sentence was coded and assigned a move. Based on the analysis, five main moves consisting of 12 steps and 25 sub-steps were identified. The frequency of occurrence revealed that Move 2: Introducing Study and Move 4: Presenting Findings were conventional, while Move 1: Situating Research, Move 3: Describing Methodology, and Move 5: Describing Implication and Recommendation were optional. This study has implications for research on the genre analysis of abstracts as well as the teaching of abstract structure in the academic setting. |
| تدمد: | 1925-0711 1925-0703 |
| DOI: | 10.5430/wjel.v12n6p492 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::f8d23f24f5370fffa675858566b27c99 https://doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v12n6p492 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........f8d23f24f5370fffa675858566b27c99 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19250711 19250703 |
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| DOI: | 10.5430/wjel.v12n6p492 |