Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
16th Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) Conference, Manchester, İngiltere, 7 - 10 Temmuz 2024, (Yayınlanmadı)
Despite the existing scholarly interest in studying the genre of research abstracts as "the article synopsis'' (Bhatia, 2014), there remains a dearth of research examining the disciplinary practices of researchers in certain other established knowledge domains. Even though there exists some evidence pointing towards a universal pattern in research articles that authors could adopt and practice (Swales & Feak, 2012), it is important to recognize that the emerging rhetorical moves may vary across different disciplines (Hyland, 2004), thus requiring more discipline-specific lens when it comes to the teaching of abstract writing in different disciplines. The effective implementation of corpus-based approaches in teaching disciplinary academic writing in EAP classes relies on the identification of latent patterns that have yet to be uncovered. To address this, our study adopts a corpus-based categorial approach to identify the rhetorical moves and steps within unstructured abstracts extracted from a sample of research articles in the field of Veterinary Medicine (VM), a relatively unexplored discipline. Drawing from Moreno and Swales (2018), a step-level move scheme was constructed in a hybrid fashion employing mainly a bottom-up corpus-driven approach. Move boundaries were determined as sentences, whereas other lexico-grammatical text fragments i.e., clauses or adverbial phrases were relied on as step identifiers. The analysis revealed a fluid and intricate sequence of seven primary moves, along with several subsequent steps and sub-steps. We also found that VM authors employ a certain repertoire of discourse units to perform these moves and steps. These findings were then reorganized to form a more tangible structure by condensing and reclassifying the rhetorical moves, approximating the IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion) proposed by Swales (1990) and develop a replicable framework. The simplified version was subsequently utilized in designing an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) module tailored for junior researchers specializing in VM.