CONCLUSIONS AS COMPONENTS OF RESEARCHARTICLES ACROSS PORTUGUESE AS A NATIVELANGUAGE, ENGLISH AS A NATIVE LANGUAGE ANDENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: A CONTRASTIVEGENRE STUDY (original) (raw)

The present study is a contrastive investigation of conclusions of researcharticles (RAs) written in Portuguese as a native language, English as anative language and English as a foreign language. The analysis wascarried out according to the principles of genre studies as proposed bySwales (1990). The corpus is composed of 36 conclusions of RAs in the field of applied linguistics. The findings reveal no constant pattern of rhetorical organization and no obligatory moves or steps. However,the results indicate the occurrence of a complex array of moves and steps which exhibits a cyclical structure but with differences in the threelanguages investigated. Furthermore, the samples investigated permitted the elaboration of a proposal of a model for this component of RAs. Thestudy, therefore, contributes to a richer understanding of the nature of conclusions of RAs and, as such, of academic writing

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CONCLUSIONS AS COMPONENTS OF RESEARCHARTICLES ACROSS PORTUGUESE AS A NATIVELANGUAGE, ENGLISH AS A NATIVE LANGUAGE ANDENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: A CONTRASTIVEGENRE STUDY (original) (raw)

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