Genre Analysis of Civil Engineering’s Research Article Introductions

Manzoor, Hina; Majeed, Aisha; Munaf, Madiha

doi:10.5539/ijel.v10n2p322

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“…Swales' (1990) [11] move analysis focuses on the IMRD framework (Introduction, Method, Result and Discussion), and Bhatia (1993) [10] divided the moves into four different categories: introduction purpose, description of methodology, summary of results, and presentation of conclusions. Ngowu (1997) [13], [26] analyzed structures of civil engineering research articles' introduction and concluded that the introduction genre in the field does not have the proposed sequence given in the model. In another study, [27] analyzed engineering research articles to address the need for discipline-specific writing for beginners of the English language.…”

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Debunking method section of tertiary electrical engineering laboratory reports

Veerappan,

Bhar,

Chetty

2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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This research investigates how electrical engineering undergraduates in a tertiary institution write the method section of laboratory reports (ELR) for academic purposes. It aims to identify specific rhetorical moves, recurrent step patterns and combination of both used in composing the report's method section. In order to identify the writing patterns and conventions among the final-year electrical engineering undergraduates, a genre analysis was conducted using a corpus of 35 student reports. This study adopted Genre Theory as the theoretical framework, Ngowu(1997) analytical framework and the BCU(2007) approach and procedures for analysis. A pilot test was conducted to determine the most suitable model that fits the best to describe move and steps of ELR in the method section. An inter-coder reliability was obtained that showed high significance. To ensure validity, the move and steps were benchmarked at 60% of occurrences for analysis. This study describes the main move in method as Move 1 as this section starts subsequently after the introduction section. The analysis of the method section of 35 ELR's indicates that this section consists of a main move describing experimental procedures (obligatory). Following Move 1 are three steps, firstly M1S1, setting up experiment (conventional), secondly, M1S2 stating precautions (optional) and finally M1S3 conducting the experiment (obligatory). The exemplification of findings was cross checked against the university guidelines to identify the lacks and the combination of move patterns show the steps are in sequence of M1S1M1S2M1S3. The apparatus and procedures are consistently integrated and conventionally used except for stating precautions were used optionally. The method employed in this study may be replicated to analyse various sections of scientific and technical reports such as introduction, result, discussion and conclusion (IRDC). The study emphasises collaboration between English for Academic Purposes (EAP) practitioners such as writing instructors and discipline-specific experts in engineering to enhance and improve genre-based writing instruction at tertiary level.

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confidence: 99%