Genre study：Differences in abstracts between Business and Second Language Acquisition research articles

Li Zehua.
China University of Petroleum-Beijing at Karamay

摘要

Although business programs are popular in universities，how to teach business writing in English for Specific Purposes（ESP）courses is understudied. This paper focus on the abstract，the first and a critical part in ESP writing. By comparing abstracts in business and second language acquisition（SLA）research articles（RA），this paper aims to find a better way to improve business abstract writing，and therefore discover a possible suggestion for improving ESP writing curriculum. The findings indicate business abstract focuses on making centrality claims whereas SLA abstract stress on describing methods.

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