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Length of the RAs and the Conclusions

Length of the RAs and the Conclusions

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The present work is a contrastive study where we analyse the conclusions of a corpus of 36 Linguistics and Applied Linguistics research articles written in Spanish and Slovene, both by native speakers, as well as research articles written in Spanish by Slovene investigators. We focus on the structure of this section following the moves and steps es...

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... Table 1 it can be noticed that both the interval and average length of the articles are similar in the corpora, despite Corpus ESP being the longest, followed by Corpus ELE and then Corpus SLO. Even so, although Corpus SLO is the shortest, it does not have a relevant influence in Corpus ELE. ...
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... respect to Table 2, it illustrates the results and distribution of moves and steps for the Conclusion sections in relation to the presence of rhetorical moves in each of the RAs, i.e., it shows percentage of RAs in which moves and steps were used as well as total percentage of all moves together with the total number. The first thing that attracts our attention is that although Table 1 showed that Conclusion sections were much longer in Corpus ESP, Corpus ELE is the one that has the least moves (58.33%) and steps (34.52%), considering total moves and steps. Likewise, the total number of steps in Corpus ESP is higher than in Corpus SLO or Corpus ELE, what indicates that Spanish authors are more used to the moves and steps of the Conclusion section, or at least their rhetorical strategies are closer to Anglo-Saxon standards. ...

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