Rhetorical Variation of RA Abstracts between Experts and Chinese Undergraduates

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10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.216How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Abstracting; RA; Rhetorical Structure; Authorial Variation

Abstract

The study focused on the rhetorical variation of abstracts written by experts and Chinese undergraduates by investigating 60 RA abstracts in applied linguistics. Santos’ (1996) 5-move model was adopted as the analytical framework. The results showed that abstracts by the two groups of writers shared Move 2, 3 and 4 as conventional. However, the move pattern did vary a lot among them. With regard to verb tense, despite the similar tendency of using present tense in Move 1, 2 and 5, there were great differences in all the five moves in terms of occurrence frequency. The findings have significant pedagogical implications for novice writers’ abstracting in applied linguistics.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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