An exploration of a genre set: Research article abstracts and introductions in two disciplines

By Betty Samraj. 2005

435 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/7a9d6f1977ef845604d7c011b7ee1c93011a7433

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecological Modeling

1. A. Cheng
2. Biook Behnam
3. Erjia Yan
4. Ken Hyland
5. Farhad Golpour
6. Feng Kevin Jiang

In Sociology and Political Science

1. A. Cheng
2. Biook Behnam
3. Ken Hyland
4. Farhad Golpour
5. Feng Kevin Jiang

In Statistics and Probability

1. Biook Behnam
2. Farhad Golpour
3. A. Cheng
4. Jason Rollins
5. Kai Li
6. Erjia Yan
7. Ken Hyland
8. Feng Kevin Jiang

Citations in the corpus

• Analyzing Genre Exemplars in Preparation for Writing: The Case of an L2 Graduate Student in the ESP Genre-based Instructional Framework of Academic Literacy (2008, background): “Moreover, since the introduction is arguably the most frequently studied part of RA (e.g. Swales 1981, 1990; Swales and Najar 1987; Samraj 2002, 2005), I hoped that the resulting rich theoretical insights could enable me not only to raise the students’ awareness of the generic features of this…”
• Web of Science use in published research and review papers 1997–2017: a selective, dynamic, cross-domain, content-based analysis (2017, background): “…four categories are consistent with findings of many researchers in other linguistic analysis of academic abstracts, that an ideal abstract is supposed to cover contents from all of the introduction, method, result, and conclusion sections (e.g., Salager-Meyer 1990, 1992; Samraj 2005; Swales 1981).”
• A Genre Analysis of English and Iranian Research Articles Abstracts in Applied Linguistics and Mathematics (2014, methodology): “…on the analysis of the organizational patterns of RA sections in terms of their constituent moves, such as the study of the introduction section (Samraj, 2002, 2005; Swales, 1990, 2004), the methods section (Lim, 2006), the results section (Taylor & Chen, 1991; Yang & Allison, 2003 Atai,2012),…”
• Metadiscursive nouns: Interaction and cohesion in abstract moves (2017, background): “Claims have to be presented succinctly and framed within an authorial stance which recognises both existing discursive practices and current disciplinary perspectives (Hyland, 2004; Sala, 2014; Samraj, 2005).”