A Matter of Who Writes: Generic Variations in Applied Linguists RAs by English vs. Persian Writers

چکیده مقاله

Identifying the generic features of research articles in terms of moves has been a proliferating line of investigation in EAP. Swales’ (1990) formulation of generic moves has particularly been enlightening in characterizing the scientific discourse in the research articles. The implications drawn from generic identification shed light on inter-disciplinary as well as intercultural (i.e. cross-linguistic) aspects of discourse production. The present study focused on the distinctions between 40 articles written in English by native English vs. the same number of articles written in English by native Persians regarding the move employment.