A genre analysis of abstracts in Islamic journals

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the rhetorical structure of the abstracts of the Islamic research articles. It therefore analyzes the rhetorical structure of the abstracts of the Islamic research articles written for research papers in journals and devoted to various topics in Isl...

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Main Authors:	Ismail, Shakirah, Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail
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Language:	English
Published:	IDOSI Publications 2014
Subjects:	P Philology. Linguistics
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spelling	iium-418382015-02-16T07:18:33Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/41838/ A genre analysis of abstracts in Islamic journals Ismail, Shakirah Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail P Philology. Linguistics The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the rhetorical structure of the abstracts of the Islamic research articles. It therefore analyzes the rhetorical structure of the abstracts of the Islamic research articles written for research papers in journals and devoted to various topics in Islam. For this purpose 100 abstracts were chosen from five Islamic journals. Specifically, the paper sought to find out if these abstracts followed or deviated from Swales’ IMRD (Introduction-Method-Results-Discussion) model. The results show that only very small percentage of the abstracts follow this model. The paper also analyzed the abstracts from a micro-structure level using the CARS (Create a Research Space) model. The results show that most of the Introduction sections of the abstracts themselves have all the moves prescribed by the CARS model. However, the number of abstracts that follow the linear order 1-2-3, was relatively small. Though most of the authors followed the rhetorical moves, they deviated in terms of its organization. Some pedagogical implications are drawn from the study. IDOSI Publications 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/41838/1/A_Genre_Analysis_of_Abstracts_in_Islamic_Journals.pdf Ismail, Shakirah and Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail (2014) A genre analysis of abstracts in Islamic journals. Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research, 20. pp. 75-82. ISSN 1990-9233 http://www.idosi.org/mejsr/mejsr20(lcl)14/11.pdf 10.5829/idosi.mejsr.2014.20.lcl.211
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spellingShingle	P Philology. Linguistics Ismail, Shakirah Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail A genre analysis of abstracts in Islamic journals
description	The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the rhetorical structure of the abstracts of the Islamic research articles. It therefore analyzes the rhetorical structure of the abstracts of the Islamic research articles written for research papers in journals and devoted to various topics in Islam. For this purpose 100 abstracts were chosen from five Islamic journals. Specifically, the paper sought to find out if these abstracts followed or deviated from Swales’ IMRD (Introduction-Method-Results-Discussion) model. The results show that only very small percentage of the abstracts follow this model. The paper also analyzed the abstracts from a micro-structure level using the CARS (Create a Research Space) model. The results show that most of the Introduction sections of the abstracts themselves have all the moves prescribed by the CARS model. However, the number of abstracts that follow the linear order 1-2-3, was relatively small. Though most of the authors followed the rhetorical moves, they deviated in terms of its organization. Some pedagogical implications are drawn from the study.
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author	Ismail, Shakirah Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail
author_facet	Ismail, Shakirah Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail
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title	A genre analysis of abstracts in Islamic journals
title_short	A genre analysis of abstracts in Islamic journals
title_full	A genre analysis of abstracts in Islamic journals
title_fullStr	A genre analysis of abstracts in Islamic journals
title_full_unstemmed	A genre analysis of abstracts in Islamic journals
title_sort	genre analysis of abstracts in islamic journals
publisher	IDOSI Publications
publishDate	2014
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A genre analysis of abstracts in Islamic journals

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