A cross-disciplinary and comprehensive genre analysis of research articles for educational applications

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K16808
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Ochanomizu University
• Principal Investigator: Maswana Sayako お茶の水女子大学, 基幹研究院, 講師 (60608933)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 学術目的の英語 / ジャンル / 学術論文

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To provide a resource for academic writing instruction, this study investigates English research articles, a particularly important academic genre, of four disciplines based mainly on rhetorical structures and expressions. In addition to revealing some disciplinary writing conventions, the introductory section in the disciplines of medicine and economics was examined for diachronic changes. The similarities and differences between the disciplines were explored from the perspectives of discourse community culture and practice and English as an academic lingua franca. As the articles in social sciences seemed interdisciplinary, research articles in the information and communication technologies field were used to explore interdisciplinary writing. Through collaboration with the discipline expert, features pertaining to interdisciplinary writing have been discussed. The results of comprehensive analysis provide insights into the academic writing education as well as the future research.

Free Research Field

英語教育