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In:The Academic Discourse of Mechanical Engineering: A corpus-based study into rhetorical conventions of research articles
Thi Ngoc Phuong Le, Minh Man Pham and Michael Barlow
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 107] 2023
► pp. 77–162

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Chapter 5
Rhetorical structures of mechanical engineering research articles

Published online: 3 April 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.107.c5
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • 5.1Prototypical framework of communicative functions in the mechanical engineering articles
  • 5.2Properties of the framework: The range, length, frequency, embedding, sequence and cycle
    • 5.2.1The introduction section
      • 5.2.1.1Move/step descriptors
        • Move 1.Establish a territory
          • Step 1.Make topic generalisations
          • Step 2.Refer to previous research
          • Step 3.Make suggestions
          • Step 4.Claim centrality
          • Step 5.Review previous research
          • Step 6.Evaluate the previous research
        • Move 2.Identify a niche
          • Step 1A.Indicate a gap
          • Step 1B.Formulate the research problem
          • Step 1C.Continue the research tradition
        • Move 3.Address the niche
          • Step 1A.State the motive of the current research
          • Step 1B.Pave the way for the current research by presenting a research direction
          • Step 2A.Announce the present research purposefully or descriptively
          • Step 2B.State the scope of the research
          • Step 2C.Justify the research focus
          • Step 3.State methodological details
          • Step 4.Introduce the research outcome
          • Step 5.Evaluate the current research
          • Step 6.Make suggestions or implications
      • 5.2.1.2Range, length, and frequency
      • 5.2.1.3Embedding
      • 5.2.1.4Sequence and cycle
    • 5.2.2The methods section
      • 5.2.2.1Move/step descriptors
        • Move 1AFormulate the problem
          • Move 1BDelineate study procedures
            • Step 1.Introduce and develop study scenarios
            • Step 2.Identify and develop tools, instruments, or materials for data acquisition
            • Step 3.Acquire data
            • Step 4.Validate the results and the method
            • Step 5.Present results
          • Move 2.Contextualise the method
            • Step 1.Describe the study background
            • Step 2.Describe study scenarios
            • Step 3.Provide background information
            • Step 4.Pave the way for the study
          • Move 3.Outline the method
            • Step 1.State variables
            • Step 2.State and describe the approach used for acquiring data
            • Step 3.State considerations related to the implementation of the approach
            • Step 4.Present assumptions
          • Move 4.Acquire data
            • Step 1.State methodological procedures
            • Step 2.State data acquisition procedures
            • Step 3.Raise issues related to the data acquisition procedures
            • Step 4.State data reduction procedures
          • Move 5.Detail tools, instruments, or materials for data acquisition
            • Step 1.Detail the research system
            • Step 2.Identify and develop tools, instruments, or materials for data acquisition
            • Step 3.State and describe tools, instruments, or materials
            • Step 4.State research conditions and parameter settings
            • Step 5.Justify the use of tools, instruments, or materials
          • Move 6.Process the data
            • Step 1.State data processing procedures
            • Step 2.State tools, instruments, or materials for processing data
            • Step 3.State processing results
            • Step 4.Explicate the processing results
          • Move 7.Validate the methods and the tools
            • Step 1.Substantiate validation procedures
            • Step 2.State validation procedures
            • Step 3A.Restate the method of the study
            • Step 3B.Describe other sources
            • Step 4.Obtain validation data
            • Step 5.State tools, instruments, or materials for obtaining validation data
            • Step 6.Report validation data
            • Step 7.Report validation results
            • Step 8A.Account for the validation data
            • Step 8B.Account for the validation results
            • Step 9.Comment on the method or the credibility of the method
          • Move 8.Present the data
            • Step 1.Provide reasons for presenting the data
            • Step 2.State notes about presenting the data
            • Step 3.Describe the data
            • Step 4.Explicate the data
            • Step 5.Expand on the data
      • 5.2.2.2Range, length, and frequency
      • 5.2.2.3Embedding
      • 5.2.2.4Sequence and cycle
    • 5.2.3The results-discussion section
      • 5.2.3.1Move/Step descriptors
        • Move 1AFormulate the problem
        • Move 1BRestate study procedures
          • Step 1A.Develop tools, instruments, or materials for data processing
          • Step 1B.Validate the method
        • Move 2AProvide background information
          • Step 1A.Provide general orientation
          • Step 1B.Provide background knowledge with citations
          • Step 2.Make reference to previous research or other sources
          • Step 3A.State study specifics
          • Step 3B.State the focus of the study
          • Step 4.Justify study specifics
          • Step 5A.Formulate research problems
          • Step 5B.Address research problems
        • Move 2BProvide information about the methodological approach
          • Step 1.Recount main research activities
          • Step 2.Provide a context for the methodological approach
          • Step 3.Restate assumptions
          • Step 4.Delineate the method
          • Step 5.Restate methodological procedures
          • Step 6.Provide theoretical analysis
          • Step 7.State and describe variables and parameters
          • Step 8.Restate data acquisition procedures
          • Step 9.Restate data acquisition tools, instruments, or materials
          • Step 10.Restate data processing procedures
          • Step 11.Validate the method
      • Move 3.Present results of the study
        • Step 1A.State notes about the presentation of results
        • Step 1B.State how to read the results
        • Step 1C.State notes about results
        • Step 2.Report specific results
        • Step 3.Report subordinate results
        • Step 4.Report supporting results
        • Step 5.Report conflicting results
      • Move 4.Establish the credibility of the results and the method
        • Step 1.State validation procedures
        • Step 2.Identify tools, instruments, or materials for validation
        • Step 3.State tools, instruments, or materials for validation
        • Step 4A.Report general trends from different sources
        • Step 4B.Compare results directly
        • Step 4C.Compare results indirectly
        • Step 5A.Explicate the general trends
        • Step 5B.Explicate the comparison results
        • Step 6A.Account for the general trends
        • Step 6B.Account for the comparison results
        • Step 7A.Note implications
        • Step 7B.State limitations in making comparisons
        • Step 8A.Comment on the reliability of the method
        • Step 8B.Comment on the reliability of the results
      • Move 5.Summarise the results
      • Move 6.Comment on the results
        • Step 1A.Clarify expectations
        • Step 1B.Hypothesise the results
        • Step 2.Explicate the results
        • Step 3.State the credibility of the interpretations
        • Step 4.Account for the results
        • Step 5.Raise questions related to the cause of the results
        • Step 6.Validate the explanations
        • Step 7.Evaluate the results
      • Move 7.Evaluate the study
        • Step 1A.State the significance of the study
        • Step 1B.Indicate the boundary of the study
        • Step 1C.State the value of the method
        • Step 1D.Indicate limitations of the method
        • Step 1E.Indicate limitations in results presentation
        • Move 8.Make deductions
          • Step 1A.Generalise the results
          • Step 1B.Investigate the applicability of the system
          • Step 2.Make suggestions or implications
          • Step 3.Explicate the suggestions
          • Step 4.Propose future research directions
        • 5.2.3.2Range, Length, and Frequency
        • .2.3.3Embedding
        • 5.2.3.4Sequence and cycle
    • 5.2.4The conclusion section
      • 5.2.4.1Move/Step Descriptors
        • Move 1.Review the study
          • Step 1A.Draw on general background
          • Step 1B.Make reference to previous works
          • Step 2.Summarise the study
          • Step 3.Draw on study-specific background
        • Move 2.Summarise main findings
          • Step 1A.Highlight principal research outcomes
          • Step 1B.Summarise principal findings and discussion
          • Step 1C.Restate validation results
          • Step 1D.Hypothesise the results
        • Move 3.Discuss the findings
          • Step 1.Explicate the results
          • Step 2A.Account for the results
          • Step 2B.Account for the validation results
          • Step 3.State the plausibility of the explanations
          • Step 4.Acknowledge limitations
        • Move 4.Compare the findings
      • Move 5.Draw conclusions
      • Move 6.Evaluate the study
        • Step 1A.Claim the value of the research
        • Step 1B.Highlight the value of the method
        • Step 2A.Indicate limitations
        • Step 2B.State the boundary of the study
        • Move 7.Draw implications
          • Step 1.Note implications
          • Step 2.Propose future research
          • Step 3.Justify the suggestions for future research
      • 5.2.4.2Range, length, and frequency
      • 5.2.4.3Embedding
      • 5.2.4.4Sequence and cycle
    • 5.2.5The ‘other functions’ category
      • 5.2.5.1Descriptors of the other functions
        • Locating function
        • Announcing functions
        • Summarizing function
        • Clarifying functions
      • 5.2.5.2Range, length, and frequency
      • 5.2.5.3Embedding
      • 5.2.5.4Sequence and cycle
  • 5.3Structural properties
    • 5.3.1Communicative functions and epistemology
    • 5.3.2Complexity in the realisation of communicative categories
    • 5.3.3Co-occurrence patterns of the rhetorical functions
    • 5.3.4Logical presentation
    • 5.3.5Cognitive orientation of the rhetorical structures
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