A comparative study of moves in abstracts of laboratory animal review articles and cell biology research articles
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Issued Date
2016
Copyright Date
2016
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eng
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xii, 180 leaves
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Mahidol University
Bibliographic Citation
Thesis (M.A. (Applied Linguistics))--Mahidol University, 2016
Suggested Citation
Chaniporn Bhoomanee A comparative study of moves in abstracts of laboratory animal review articles and cell biology research articles. Thesis (M.A. (Applied Linguistics))--Mahidol University, 2016. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/108437
Title
A comparative study of moves in abstracts of laboratory animal review articles and cell biology research articles
Alternative Title(s)
การศึกษาเปรียบเทียบอัตถภาคในบทคัดย่อของบทความปริทัศน์ด้านสัตว์ทดลองและบทความวิจัยด้านชีววิทยาของเซลล์
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Abstract
The objectives of this study were: 1) to investigate the frequency and the sequence of moves in the abstracts of animal review articles in Institute for Laboratory Animal Research Journal (ILAR), 2) to investigate the frequency and the sequence of moves in the abstracts of research articles in Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), 3) to compare the frequency and the sequence of moves in abstracts between laboratory animal review article and cell biology research article, and 4) to investigate the language uses of the highest-frequency move found in the abstracts of laboratory animal review articles and cell biology research articles in terms of verb choices, tenses, voices, and types of sentence. The analytical framework used in this study based on Taddio et al. (1994) who proposed eight moves in the research article abstracts: purpose, research design, setting, subjects, intervention, measurement, results, and conclusion. This study consisted of two corpora collected from ILAR and JCB published in 2012-2014. An entire corpus comprised 100 abstracts selected by using a stratified random sampling and simple random sampling (50 laboratory animal review articles and 50 cell biology research articles). Data analysis composed of three steps: 1) move identification, 2) inter-rater reliability assessment, and 3) comparison of move analysis of two corpora. Three inter-raters analyzed the dataset reliability, and Fleiss' kappa reliability was to measure the agreement of the raters. The statistics used in this study were frequency and percentage. The results revealed that there were nine moves occurring in the abstracts of ILAR, and seven moves appearing in the abstracts of JCB. Specially, this study found a high frequency of new move (background: MB), which differed from Taddio et al. (1994)'s framework. In ILAR corpus, there were three high-frequency moves: MB (94%), M1 (82%), and M8 (54%). In contrast, JCB corpus composed of four high- frequency moves: MB (98%), M8 (96%), M7 (94%), and M1 (60%). Remaining moves occurred in le;
Description
Applied Linguistics (Mahidol University 2016)
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Degree Level
Master's degree
Degree Department
Faculty of Liberal Arts
Degree Discipline
Applied Linguistics
Degree Grantor(s)
Mahidol University