An Investigation of the Generic Features of Research Articles Published in the Bulletin of Iranian Mathematical Society

Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice

مقاله 5، دوره 8، شماره 16، مرداد 2015، صفحه 110-137   

نوع مقاله: Research Paper

نویسندگان

Davud Kuhi^* ؛ Nastaran Haji-Hatamloo

English Language Department, Maragheh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh, Iran

چکیده

In light of the understanding that the analysis of the generic features of different academic genres can enhance the ability of non-native members of academic discourse communities to understand, and where appropriate, to produce them, the present study aimed at investigating the dominant generic structure of research articles in mathematics. To start with a relatively narrow focus, a corpus of thirty mathematics research articles were randomly selected from The Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society(BIMS), and were analyzed in terms of their macro-organizational structure. An eleven-move structure was identified in the analyzed corpus, while it was also found that the research articles in the corpus did not follow the conventional Introduction-Methods-Results-Discussion structure found in many other disciplines. Methods and Discussion sections which are frequently encountered in research articles of many other disciplines were missing in the analyzed articles. It is argued that the findings may have theoretical implications in revealing some discipline specific conventions of organizing macro structure. Since all the authors were Iranian, the emerging model should be treated cautiously because some aspects of the emerging macro structure may also be under the influence of culture specific conventions.   

کلیدواژه‌ها

mathematics؛ genre؛ Generic Features؛ Research Article

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