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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
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Studies in Corpus Linguistics
107] 2023
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Chapter 5
Rhetorical structures of mechanical engineering research articles
Article outline
Introduction
5.1
Prototypical framework of communicative functions in the mechanical engineering articles
5.2
Properties of the framework: The range, length, frequency, embedding, sequence and cycle
5.2.1
The introduction section
5.2.1.1
Move/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
5.2.1.2
Range, length, and frequency
5.2.1.3
Embedding
5.2.1.4
Sequence and cycle
5.2.2
The methods section
5.2.2.1
Move/step descriptors
Move 1A
Formulate the problem
Move 1B
Delineate 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
5.2.2.2
Range, length, and frequency
5.2.2.3
Embedding
5.2.2.4
Sequence and cycle
5.2.3
The results-discussion section
5.2.3.1
Move/Step descriptors
Move 1A
Formulate the problem
Move 1B
Restate study procedures
Step 1A.
Develop tools, instruments, or materials for data processing
Step 1B.
Validate the method
Move 2A
Provide 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 2B
Provide 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
5.2.3.2
Range, Length, and Frequency
.2.3.3
Embedding
5.2.3.4
Sequence and cycle
5.2.4
The conclusion section
5.2.4.1
Move/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
5.2.4.2
Range, length, and frequency
5.2.4.3
Embedding
5.2.4.4
Sequence and cycle
5.2.5
The ‘other functions’ category
5.2.5.1
Descriptors of the other functions
Locating function
Announcing functions
Summarizing function
Clarifying functions
5.2.5.2
Range, length, and frequency
5.2.5.3
Embedding
5.2.5.4
Sequence and cycle
5.3
Structural properties
5.3.1
Communicative functions and epistemology
5.3.2
Complexity in the realisation of communicative categories
5.3.3
Co-occurrence patterns of the rhetorical functions
5.3.4
Logical presentation
5.3.5
Cognitive orientation of the rhetorical structures