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A Genre Analysis Study of 80 Medical Abstracts.

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Anderson, Kenneth; Maclean, Joan – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1997

A study investigated the usefulness of instructional materials on the writing of scientific articles by comparing the descriptions of abstracts offered in the textbook with a sample of abstracts drawn from four fields of medicine (clinical medicine, surgery, epidemiology, basic sciences). The comparison was confined to abstracts of results-focused…

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