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Li, Qian; Pramoolsook, Issra – English Language Teaching, 2015
The importance of RA abstracts lies in their influence on the readers' decision about whether the accompanying article is worth reading. A number of studies have investigated the move structure of abstracts and have generated several influential models. However, little research has been conducted on subdisciplinary variations in move structure of…
Descriptors: Documentation, Journal Articles, Business, Business Administration
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Suntara, Watinee; Usaha, Siriluck – English Language Teaching, 2013
The previous studies on abstracts (e.g., Santos, 1996; Samraj, 2002; Pho, 2008) illustrate that disciplinary variation in research article abstracts is discernible. However, the studies of abstracts from two related disciplines are still limited. The present study aimed to explore the rhetorical moves of abstracts in the fields of linguistics and…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Research Reports, Documentation, Discourse Analysis
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Reinking, David – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1992
Discusses conceptual differences between electronic and printed texts using a literature review that categorizes studies as convergent (i.e., electronic text as conceptually the same as printed text) or divergent (i.e., electronic text as conceptually different.) Four differences based on theoretical positions and findings from divergent studies…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Electronic Publishing, Intermode Differences, Literature Reviews