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Validation markers in introduction and results and discussion sections of research articles from four disciplines | ||
Journal of Teaching English Lnaguage Studies | ||
مقاله 4، دوره 7، شماره 1، آذر 2018، صفحه 73-90 اصل مقاله (2.21 M) | ||
نویسندگان | ||
Seyed Foad Ebrahimi* 1؛ Aziz Eshmidian Nejad2 | ||
1Department of English, Shadegan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shadegan, Iran. | ||
2English Department, Abadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abadan, Iran | ||
چکیده | ||
In the last three decades, genre of research article, among other genres of academic writings, has received the greatest attention. This attention is due to the vital role that research article plays in the legitimating of claims and disciplines. Johns and Swales (2002) relate this attention to the intensive review process that research article goes through before getting “valorized and ratified by the very fact of being published” (p.13). Research article also plays a significant role in the circulation of academic knowledge that requires meeting the often-stringent requirements of a disciplinary community. The mentioned importance has provoked this study to investigate how writers validate the ideas, claims, arguments and findings reported in introduction and results and discussion sections of research articles across four disciplines namely; Applied Linguistics, Psychology, Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering. To this end, 40 introduction and results and discussion sections were extracted from 40 research articles published in high-impact journals from four disciplines (10 from each discipline). The data were analyzed and the findings reported some disciplinary differences concerning the frequency and discourse functions of validation markers. The differences could be attributed to the disciplinary conventions of writing or rhetorical functions of introduction and results and discussion section of research article. The results of this study might act as a guide for novice writers from four disciplines to plot how successful writers validate their ideas, arguments, findings and claims in introduction and results and discussion sections of research articles. | ||
کلیدواژهها | ||
genre؛ Research Article؛ results and discussion section؛ introduction section؛ validation markers؛ discipline | ||
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