Rhetorical Organisation of the Subsections of Research Article Introductions in Applied Linguistics
Since the publication of the book Genre Analysis (CUP) by Swales (1990), many studies have focused on the study of the rhetorical organisation of different sections of research articles (RAs). The organisation of RA introductions has received most of the attention. However, the focus has generally been on the structure of introductions without subsections or on the main part of introductions with subsections. The term “main part” refers to the section between the abstract and the first subsection of an introduction. However, many researchers have not specified whether the introductions they studied were followed by subsections or not. Therefore, the present study firstly focuses on the structural comparison of RAs with and without subsections. Also, the rhetorical organisation of RA introductions with subsections has not received any attention. Hence, the second purpose of the present study is to investigate how RA introductions with subsections in the field of Applied Linguistics are rhetorically organised. The corpus used in the study consisted of 50 RA introductions published in high impact Applied Linguistics journals. In the analysis, Swales’ (1990, 2004) CARS model was used. The findings show that there are rhetorical differences between RA introductions with and without subsections. The study has implications for teaching academic writing to postgraduate students and novice researchers.
Swales’ın (1990) Genre Analysis kitabının yayınlanmasından sonra bilimsel makalelerinin farklı bölümlerinin retorik veya başka bir deyişle yapısal organizasyonunu inceleyen pek çok araştırma yapılmıştır. En çok ilgiyi araştırma makalelerinin giriş bölümlerinin yapısal organizasyonu çekmiştir. Bununla birlikte, araştırmacılar daha çok makalelerin alt başlıkları bulunmayan giriş bölümleri veya alt başlıkları bulunan makalelerin de sadece “ana” bölümleri üzerinde durmuşlardır. "Ana bölüm" terimi ile özet başlığı ile ilk alt başlık arasındaki kısım kastedilmektedir. Ne yazık ki bu çalışmaların çoğunda giriş bölümlerinin devamında alt başlıklar bulunup bulunmadığı net bir şekilde ifade edilmemiştir. Bundan dolayı, bu çalışmanın ilk amacı makalelerin alt başlıksız giriş bölümleri ile alt başlıklı giriş bölümlerinin ana kısımlarının karşılaştırmaktır. Bu çalışmanın bir diğer amacı da günümüze kadar hiç araştırılmamış olan alt başlıklı giriş bölümlerinin retorik yapısını incelemektir. Çalışmada kullanılan veri tabanı (corpus), Uygulamalı Dilbilim alanının önde gelen ve etki faktörü yüksek akademik dergilerde yayınlanan 50 makaleden oluşmaktadır. Analizde Swales'in (1990, 2004) CARS modeli kullanılmıştır. Elde edilen bulgular makalelerin alt başlıklı ve alt başlıksız giriş bölümleri arasında retorik farklılıklar olduğunu göstermektedir. Bu çalışmanın bulguları lisansüstü öğrencilere ve acemi araştırmacılara akademik yazma öğretmek amacıyla kullanılabilir.
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- ISSN: 1307-4733
- Yayın Aralığı: Yıllık
- Başlangıç: 2007
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