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第二十三屆中華民國英語文教學研究國際研討會 2006/5/27-28, Wenzao College 題目︰Exploring genre sets: Research article sections in illustrative humanities and science disciplines 撰稿人：Wen-Ming Hsieh, Yun-Chru Tsai, Ming-Chia Lin, Hsien-Chin Liou, and Chih-Hua Kuo 聯絡方式：hcliu@.tw, 03-5742709 中華民國 95 年 3 月 24 日 Exploring genre sets: Research article sections in two illustrative humanities and science disciplines Wen-Ming Hsieh, Yun-Chru Tsai, Ming-Chia Lin, Hsien-Chin Liou and Chih-Hua Kuo* National Tsing Hua University, *National Chiao-Tung University Academic English writing in research journal articles usually conforms to a fixed set of conventions in order to be received in each disciplinary discursive community. However, how writing in humanities is different from that in science, particularly across various sections of research articles (e.g., abstract, introduction, method, etc.) remains anecdotal or observational. Scholars have claimed that genre relations across various research article sections are important for students of academic English writing; likewise, the variation across disciplinary boundaries may also have an impact on different generic interrelatedness. In this paper, comparisons of genre sets (including abstracts, introductions and discussions) in 12 research articles from a humanities area (applied linguistics) and 12 articles from the computer science area were made in order to grasp a glimpse of subtleties among genre sets between the two illustrative humanities and science disciplines. The functional move structures and the use of hedges were the focus for contrast. The findings indicate the introductions in the humanities area are longer in length with more literature review and less method-related descriptions, as opposed to those in the computer science area. The humanities discipline used more hedging devices than the computer science discipline did regarding the discussions. Hedging devices were used most in discu