“…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.…”