Although contrastive move analysis of article abstracts has been a highlight,few studies focus on abstracts of natural sci⁃ence articles.To compensate for this gap,this study,based on IMRD model,focuses on aquatic bio...Although contrastive move analysis of article abstracts has been a highlight,few studies focus on abstracts of natural sci⁃ence articles.To compensate for this gap,this study,based on IMRD model,focuses on aquatic biology abstracts and contrasts those by native English speakers and those by Chinese authors.Combining quantitative and qualitative studies,it reveals their dif⁃ferences and similarities in terms of the frequency of different moves,sentence length and move length significance.Such similari⁃ties and differences can be explained by the face culture of China,the different language proficiency and the common convention of academic abstract.展开更多
This paper contrastively studies the generic structures of sixty abstracts from English teaching and learning journals written by Chinese writers and English native writers.Analysis of the data is based on Swales'...This paper contrastively studies the generic structures of sixty abstracts from English teaching and learning journals written by Chinese writers and English native writers.Analysis of the data is based on Swales' IMRD(Introduction-Method-Result-Discussion) model and all the data are coded through SPSS.Result indicates 1) English natives tend to write longer than Chinese.2) The rhetorical structure of the abstract tends to be more complete in the international journals.3) English natives tend to write more about the background details while the Chinese natives focus more on the result explanation.It is hoped that this comparison would shed some lights on abstract writing for Chinese writers.展开更多
文摘Although contrastive move analysis of article abstracts has been a highlight,few studies focus on abstracts of natural sci⁃ence articles.To compensate for this gap,this study,based on IMRD model,focuses on aquatic biology abstracts and contrasts those by native English speakers and those by Chinese authors.Combining quantitative and qualitative studies,it reveals their dif⁃ferences and similarities in terms of the frequency of different moves,sentence length and move length significance.Such similari⁃ties and differences can be explained by the face culture of China,the different language proficiency and the common convention of academic abstract.
文摘This paper contrastively studies the generic structures of sixty abstracts from English teaching and learning journals written by Chinese writers and English native writers.Analysis of the data is based on Swales' IMRD(Introduction-Method-Result-Discussion) model and all the data are coded through SPSS.Result indicates 1) English natives tend to write longer than Chinese.2) The rhetorical structure of the abstract tends to be more complete in the international journals.3) English natives tend to write more about the background details while the Chinese natives focus more on the result explanation.It is hoped that this comparison would shed some lights on abstract writing for Chinese writers.
