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The main purpose of this study was to explore and examine the rhetorical structure of
Iranian and English dentistry research article discussions by means of comparing the
move structures presented in the discussion sections of English and Persian dentistry
research articles with the purpose of recognizing rhetorical preferences used by English
and...
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... findings of the analysis of these two moves indicated that there was no statistically In that research, move 3 was specified as the optional too. In previous studies, ISSN 0974- 8741 COMPARATIVE GENERIC ANALYSIS OF DISCUSSION SECTIONS OF ENGLISH AND PERSIAN DENTISTRY RESEARCH ARTICLES BY 1.MASOUMEH KHORRAMDEL & 2. MARYAM FARNIA totally, move 3 hadalso been classified as optional (Hopkins and Dudley Evans, 1988;Rasmeenin, 2006). Step 2 was presented English research articles more than the Persian ones. ...
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... Farnia & Barati, 2017;Behnam & Nikoukhesal, 2017;Jalilifar & Golkar, 2016;Validi, Jalilifar, Shooshtari, & Hayati, 2016;Rahimi & Farnia, 2017), methods (e.g. Ebrahimi, 2016;Mozaheb, 2015), results and discussions (Amirian, Kassaian & Tavakoli, 2008;Atai & Fallah, 2004;Ershadi & Farnia, 2015;Hashemi & Gohari, 2016;Khorramdel & Farnia, 2017), and conclusions (e.g. Najar & Amjadiparvar, 2016;Zamani & Ebadi, 2016). ...
The present study aimed to examine the rhetorical structure of the method sections of English and Persian research articles. To this end, 300 method sections were randomly selected from research articles published in established international English, Iranian local English, and Iranian local Persian journals in Applied Linguistics from 2010 to 2016. Following Lim's (2006) model, we analyzed the articles for the generic patterns in the method section. Findings showed that the writers of Persian research articles used a significantly greater number of moves in developing the research method section than those of international and local English articles. Moreover, despite variations, there were similarities between international and Iranian local English journals in terms of utilizing moves and steps. 215
... The reason for choosing this move model was that it contains seven main moves covering the rhetorical structure of the sections analyzed. Also, this move framework accounts for the typical communicative purposes of the discussion sections analyzed, and it was cited and applied in previous studies (Amirian et al., 2008;Amnuai & Wannaruk, 2013;Basturkmen, 2009;Khorramdel & Farnia, 2017), which underpinned the reliability of their models. ...
... This means that they can be excluded from the discussion sections. Some previous research studies (Amnuai & Wannaruk, 2013;Atai & Falah, 2004;Khorramdel & Farnia, 2017) also pointed out that these moves were less frequent. However, although the frequency of occurrence of Move 6 (Evaluating the study) was considered optional, 55 percent to some extent implies a trend in usage. ...
... For example, in the hard sciences, it was found that there was 53 percent frequency of occurrence in a corpus of biochemistry discussion sections conducted by Kanoksilapatham (2005). In a medical corpus investigated by El Malik and Nesis (2008), this step showed 40 percent of frequency of occurrence, and 46 percent was found in Khorramdel and Farnia's (2017) study. Conversely, in the soft sciences, for example in the applied linguistics field, each of these studies (Amirian et al., 2008;Amnuai & Wannaruk, 2013) showed 70 percent of frequency of occurrence in their corpora. ...
There has been a growing interest in the study of genre-based analysis, with particular focus on the research article (RA). Each section of an RA displays different conventional formats and styles. Discussion sections are of interest since they include not only research findings but also the authors' points of view. Furthermore, discussion sections are of importance because they are one of the most demanding sections for writers, especially for novice researchers who are non-native English speakers. For these reasons, analyzing discussion sections in terms of move structures was the main objective of the present study. Twenty English RA discussion sections in the field of accounting were analyzed using Yang and Allison's (2003) move model. Four dominant rhetorical moves were found which were both similar and different from the framework. The findings should be invaluable for inexperienced research writers in this particular field to use for guidance when writing RA discussion sections.
