TheRhetoricStructureofResearchArticleAbstra ctsinEnglishStudiesJournals

Abstract

Any academic discourse group worth its salt requires its members to write abstracts that are both
useful and easy to understand. In a typical abstract, you may discover details on the study's
rationale, methods, scope, key results, and conclusions. Forty research papers published in two
journals of English Studies were examined for rhetorical strategies according to Santos's (1996)
methodology. There were noticeable disparities in the rhetorical structures of the twenty abstracts
from the fields of linguistics and literature, according to cross-disciplinary assessments. The
abstracts from the field of linguistics gave a more thorough overview of the study's methodology,
scope, and primary findings, whilst the abstracts from the field of literature attempted to
contextualise the study within a broader framework and presented a more tentative overview of its
findings. For an outsider to the specific field's intimate academic discourse group, abstracts with
less than three steps are seen as too unclear. An reason for the discrepancy between the two
publications' published abstracts remains elusive. The vast worldwide community of academics in
English studies is one group that may benefit from this study's findings by becoming more aware of
the significance of producing concise abstracts for publications with big readerships