Genre Analysis of MA Thesis Abstracts by native and (Iraqi) non-native Speakers of English | ||
| Journal of University of Babylon | ||
| Article 1, Volume 26, Issue 1, March 2018, Pages 37-50 | ||
| Authors | ||
| FirasAbdul-Munim Jawad; Aziz khalaf Abid Saleh | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The purpose of the present study is to investigate the macro-structure (move-step analysis) of abstract section of MA theses in linguistics. There are two corpora consist of fifteen MA theses written by American native and fifteen others by Iraqi Arab non-native speakers of English. Based on the analysis, some similarities and differences were found regarding cyclicity (move structure) and move-step frequency of occurrence. The findings of the present study are useful for Iraqi non-native writers by presenting the important factors that make them familiar with rhetorical move-step structure of MA thesis abstracts. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Genre analysis; research article abstracts; move analysis | ||
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