Rhetorical Structure of the Abstracts of Medical Sciences Research Articles

Javad Gholami,

Published on: 2019-03-27

Abstract

Abstracts as an independent type of genre play a crucial role in selling research articles (RAs), therefore; it is essential to acquire their rhetorical structures and linguistic features to enter a discourse community. Following Santos’s (1996) move scheme model, this study aimed at exploring the most frequently employed rhetorical structures in the abstract sections (ASs) of research articles (RAs) in medical sciences.

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