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Abstract
After Swales’ (1981,1990) had published his valuable works to analyze Research Article Introductions (RAIs), various researchers (e.g. Bruce, 2009; Arsyad, 2013, Amnuai, 2019) conducted a large number of studies to analyze the different sections of Research Articles (RAs). However, little attention has been paid to the analysis of the introduction sections at both micro and macro levels especially in the fields of dentistry and linguistics. To fill in this gap, this study seeks to examine the generic structure and linguistic features of one hundred RAIs published in Egyptian and international journals between 2014 and 2021 in the two abovementioned domains. The study is based on Swales’ (2004) ’Create a Research Space (CARS) model and it uses qualitative and quantitative techniques for analyzing data. The findings have revealed some differences and similarities among the four corpora. For example, Move1 (establishing a territory) appeared to be the only obligatory move in the Egyptian corpus whereas the three moves (establishing a territory, establishing a niche, presenting the present work) were found to be obligatory in the international sample. However, both Egyptian and international RAs were found to be similar in using present simple tense and active voice the most. The four corpora were similar in terms of transitivity process types and nominalization types. The study provides useful insights for Egyptian and apprentice scholars to know precisely the conventions of writing RAIs which help them practice writing their own introductions.
Key words: Genre analysis, Swales’ (2004) CARS model, research article, introduction section, linguistic features