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A Genre-Based Study of Algerian EFL Writers' Academic Texts: Move Structure in Research Article Abstracts

A Genre-Based Study of Algerian EFL Writers' Academic Texts: Move Structure in Research Article Abstracts

Touria Drid
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781799822653|ISBN10: 1799822656|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799822660|EISBN13: 9781799822677
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2265-3.ch008
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Drid, Touria. "A Genre-Based Study of Algerian EFL Writers' Academic Texts: Move Structure in Research Article Abstracts." Teaching Academic Writing as a Discipline-Specific Skill in Higher Education, edited by El-Sadig Y. Ezza and Touria Drid, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 175-198. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2265-3.ch008

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Drid, T. (2020). A Genre-Based Study of Algerian EFL Writers' Academic Texts: Move Structure in Research Article Abstracts. In E. Ezza & T. Drid (Eds.), Teaching Academic Writing as a Discipline-Specific Skill in Higher Education (pp. 175-198). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2265-3.ch008

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Drid, Touria. "A Genre-Based Study of Algerian EFL Writers' Academic Texts: Move Structure in Research Article Abstracts." In Teaching Academic Writing as a Discipline-Specific Skill in Higher Education, edited by El-Sadig Y. Ezza and Touria Drid, 175-198. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2265-3.ch008

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Abstract

To disseminate academic knowledge, scholars publish their research in the form of journal articles, whose content is sketched in an abstract with a conventional rhetorical organization. This chapter reports a study that aims to examine and assess the organization of research article abstracts in terms of move units. The move structure of 42 abstracts of English research papers written by Algerian researchers and published in one of the Algerian language journals was scrutinized. The study follows Hyland's analytic model, comprising five rhetorical moves: introduction, purpose, method, product, and conclusion. The findings of the study indicate that the writers predominantly employ the pattern introduction-purpose, with some inconsistencies in using the other moves. On the basis of identifying the existing deviations from the predictable generic arrangement of abstracts, the importance of raising genre awareness among EFL writers has been highlighted as a means to enhance the quality of published discourse.

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