Research articles in applied linguistics: moving from results to conclusions
By Ruiying Yang, Desmond Allison. 2003
570 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Abstract Our paper examines how selected research articles (RAs) reporting empirical investigations in applied linguistics proceed from first presenting results to eventually offering final conclusions or some other form of closure. After reviewing the literature on relevant aspects of RA structure and its functions, we report the findings of a genre analysis of 20 RAs in applied linguistics concerning rhetorical choices among possible Results, Results and Discussion, Discussion, Conclusion, and Pedagogic Implications sections, and identify specific organizational choices within each section. We propose a two-level account (Moves and Steps) of the separate Discussion sections in our corpus, and argue that this is able to capture general trends and specific rhetorical realizations in an insightful way.
Subfields: Education, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory
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Citations in the corpus
- Rhetorical structure of biochemistry research articles (2005, background): “Finally, many studies (e.g., Brett, 1994; Hopkins & Dudley-Evans, 1988; Yang & Allison, 2003; Samraj, 2002; Swales & Najjar, 1987) focused only on a few individual sections of research articles, rendering an incomplete rhetorical description of the texts.”
- Form and function of citations in discussion sections of master's theses and research articles (2013, background): “Previous analyses of the discussion sections of research articles in terms of rhetorical moves and steps (such as Yang & Allison, 2003) have acknowledged reference to previous research explicitly only in one move, “commenting on results.””
- A discourse analysis of master's theses across disciplines with a focus on introductions (2008, background): “The studies on research articles have explored both the discourse structure of various sections in this genre, such as the discussion section (Hopkins & Dudley-Evans, 1988; Yang & Allison, 2003 ), as well as patterns of use of linguistic features.”