Moves in Introduction Sections of Research Articles in Psychology, Persian Literature,and Applied Linguistics: A Genre-based Study

This genre-based study examined cross-linguistics rhetorical patterns of Introduction sections of applied linguistics in English, psychology, and Persian literature drawing on a move analysis framework proposed by Swales (2004). To this end, 30 articles were selected from leading international and Persian local journals for each aforementioned discipline. The finding showed no significant differences in research article introductions across the disciplines in terms of Moves 1 and 3; yet there were significant differences across the disciplines regarding Move 2/step1. Furthermore, no significant differences were found in terms of the extent of concordance between the Swales’ model and the move structure of the RAs analyzed. New steps were found in psychology and Persian corpuses which were not predicted by Swales’ model. The pedagogical implications were also discussed

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Research Article , Introduction , Introduction Moves , Genre Analysis , Move Analysis