Rhetorical structure and metadiscourse in research work abstracts : a contrastive genre analysis

Abstract EN

The aim of this study is to investigate the rhetorical structure and to explore how Algerian writers employ metadiscourse devices in their research work s.

In addition, the findings are compared to ENS s.

To achieve the study aim, a corpus of 40 s of different research papers is collected.

Pho (2008) model has been used to investigate the rhetorical structure of s while Hyland's (2005) taxonomy has been used to analyze the metadiscourse items.

The findings revealed that move 2, move 3 and move 4 are obligatory moves in writing while move1 and move5 are optional.

Furthermore, there was some variation between Native speakers and Algerian learners in terms of the distribution of moves in their s and the linguistic features employed in each move.

The study findings revealed also that there was some variation in terms of the use of the metadiscourse devices.