Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings

Genre Analysis of Civil Engineering’s Research Article Introductions

“…A significant study by Swales (1990) formed the theory of genre in ESP which concentrated on the organization of specific sections of research article, particularly the 'introduction'. The move structure analysis is central to this approach as it requires identifying repetitive patterns generally employed to organize the text of a genre, and later linking the stages of this text-organizing pattern to particular linguistic features (Bruce, 2009).…”

“…The move structure analysis is central to this approach as it requires identifying repetitive patterns generally employed to organize the text of a genre, and later linking the stages of this text-organizing pattern to particular linguistic features (Bruce, 2009). Subsequently, Swales (1990) proposed the revised version of his model, namely Create a Research Space (CARS) model that can serve as an analytical tool to examine the rhetorical structure of introductions of RA.…”

“…This growing research culture has led to the creation of an academic world. In order to join this world, students and academic writers are supposed to have prior knowledge about beliefs, values and conventions that are used by professionals in the discourse community (Swales, 1990;Duszak, 1994). English language is not only enjoying statuses as global language, official language and lingua franca, it has also established itself as the international language of research and scholarship.…”

“…The problems encountered by non-English speakers with academic discourse have come up with better teaching methods and improved syllabus content for teaching academic writing in English in non-native English-speaking countries. Genre-based pedagogy aims at teaching of macrostructure and organization of texts and can be a wide source in terms of teaching the academic writing of English (Dudley-Evans, 1994;Swales, 1990). Genre varied in terms of their complexity and rhetorical purpose and the mode through which writer expressed.…”

“…A lot of ESP genre analysis have been based on Swales' (1981Swales' ( , 1990 work in this area. These studies explored discourse structures and language features of research articles, masters, thesis doctoral dissertations, job application and sales promotion letters, legislative documents, the graduate seminar, academic lectures, poster session discussions, and the texts that students need to read in university courses (Paltridge, 1994(Paltridge, , 2001Hyland, 2004a;Swales, 1990Swales, , 2004 for reviews of this work). Research Articles are defined as academic text and are counted among genre.…”