Genre Analysis of Abstracts, Introductions, and Conclusions of Master Dissertations Moves: A Case Study: Department of English, UMMTO
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Date
2015
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Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
The current study investigates the field of genre analysis which is at the core of many
interests. It seeks to scrutinize seven abstracts, introductions, and conclusions in order to
reveal the different moves followed by students of the department of English of Tizi Ouzou in
writing their Master Dissertations. To achieve this objective, three distinct theoretical
frameworks are employed namely; Cooley and Lewcowicz’s abstracts moves, Swales and
Feak’s introductions moves, and Thompson’s conclusions moves. In order to analyze the
corpus, relational content analysis is adopted. The latter consists of a procedure allowing the
identification of some terms/sentences which express the moves of the aforementioned
sections. The mixed method is used to report the results. It was found that the analyzed
dissertations have not been organized following the same moves. As a matter of fact, some
moves have been displaced, others omitted while additional moves are to be found in some
abstracts, introductions and conclusions. This may stem from the students’ lack of awareness
of well-organizing moves in writing coherent dissertations.
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55p.;30cm.(+cd)
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Genre, genre analysis, moves, move analysis, abstracts, introductions, conclusions, Master Dissertations.
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Language and Communication