چكيده
This study was an attempt to conduct a contrastive study of genre analysis
on the introduction section of English and Persian Mechanical
Engineering Research Articles published in journals, following Swales
(1990) CARS (Creating a Research Space) model. To this end, sixty
English and sixty Persian recent research article introductions were
randomly extracted from nine English and Persian Mechanical
Engineering Journals written by different authors.
According to Swales (1990) CARS model, Move Analysis was
conducted to collect the necessary data. The study investigated the
following areas across the introduction section of English and Persian
Mechanical Engineering Research Articles: (a) the significance of the
frequency of each Move; (b) the significance of the frequency of each
Step; (c) and the Linguistic Features of the Moves.
To study the Move and Step frequency, and Linguistic Features of the
Moves, Chi-square tests were run as appropriate nonparametric tests. The
results of Chi-square tests for move analysis were non-significant, which
show that the difference between English and Persian moves of
Mechanical Engineering is not significant.
The results of Chi-square for Steps frequency and Linguistic Features
were significant which shows that there is a considerable difference
between the frequency of English and Persian steps and there is a specific Linguistic Features associated with each Move in English and Persian
articles. The results of the study may be useful for those ESP (English for
Specific Purposes) teachers who are teaching English to Mechanical
Engineering students. The problematic areas are explained thoroughly in
chapter five. (See page 95 through 101)
