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Introductions in Examination Essays: The Case of Two Undergraduate Courses
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Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald – Across the Disciplines, 2006
The author presents a study that employs a modified version of Swales' (1990) move analysis to investigates the generic structure of introductions in a total of 120 writing samples of Ghanaian undergraduates in English and Sociology. The study reveals differences between the two groups in their use of move-structures.
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