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Abstract

Discourse analysis research has previously investigated the rhetorical structure of abstracts found within empirical texts. This has been used to inform academic writing practices and instruction of English for Academic Purposes courses. More recently, this research has analysed abstracts submitted to conferences in the area of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Research on the rhetorical structure of abstracts has utilized Swalesian rhetorical move-step analysis to figure out if they follow the models Create a Research Space (CARS; Swales, 1990) or Introduction-Methods-Results-Discussion (IMRD; Lores, 2004), finding mixed results (Kessler et al., 2014; Yoon & Casal, 2020). The current study investigated abstracts successfully accepted into a TESOL conference proceeding (KOTESOL, 2023) to continue this research using similar methods,  Continue Reading →