标题：Rhetorical Categories and Linguistic Mechanisms in Describing
Research Conditions: A Comparative Genre-Based Investigation into
Researchers' Choices in Education and Applied Linguistics
摘要：
Novice writers of research reports often assume that research methods
are generally not mentioned in the Results section of a research
paper. The extent to which such an assumption is well-founded can
be determined by conducting a mixed-method genre-based study of
data obtained from authentic research papers. Using both quantitative
and qualitative techniques in a genre analysis of two corpora of
Results sections in linguistic and educational research articles,
the researcher has investigated the various ways in which research
methods are mentioned or reiterated in the Results sections of research
reports. The findings have shown that despite the significantly
different frequencies of steps related to data collection procedures
in the two disciplines, research methods are frequently incorporated
in the Results section. What merits attention, however, is an important
range of communicative functions and an interesting repertoire of
linguistic choices that should be thoroughly studied in the preparation
of teaching material aimed at enlightening learners on how research
methods need to be described in presenting results. The findings
of this study will demonstrate that teaching novice writers how
to describe research methods while presenting certain results should
in fact constitute an important component in an ESP programme intended
to promote academic literacy.
