A Model Describing the Rhetorical Structure and Linguistic Elements of the Abstract Section of Cardiology Research Articles in English
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2022-02-22
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Angel Rodríguez, Naliet
Bernal Díaz, Pedro Santiago
Rodriguez Ruiz, Mayra
Vasconcelos Alonso, Lucia
Velázquez Brito, Julia del Carmen
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Editorial Feijóo
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The Abstract section is particularly important because it offers different communicative
functions such as presenting, describing, stating, summarizing evaluating and sometimes,
recommending. That is why, the aim of the present study is to propose a model describing
the rhetorical structure and linguistic elements used in the Abstract section of Cardiology
research articles in English. To accomplish this purpose, a special corpus of ninety
research article abstracts from three specialized Cardiology journals was compiled and
processed by AntMover 1.10 (2016) and AntConc 3.5.8 Window (2019), two corpus
analysis softwares. As a result, it was designed a rhetorical model consisting in five moves
in the Abstract section. The designed model will contribute to improve the academic
writing of research articles abstracts in English by Cuban cardiologists. It will also help
them to meet the international scientific community demands of their publications.
Furthermore, the findings will make an important contribution to the field of ESP
pedagogy as they offer authentic material, which could be used for the teaching and
learning of English writing.
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Genre analysis, Research article abstract, Corpus linguistics, Rethorical structure, Moves analysis