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The Asian ESP Journal

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Research article writing has received a great deal of attention from ESP researchers. Analyses of
the general structure of Introduction-Method-Results-Discussion (IMRD) articles, as well as
detailed analyses of individual sections, including introductions, results, and discussions
sections, have dominated the ESP literature, especially following Swales' pioneering work on
introductions in the early 1980s. Surprisingly, however, the writing of mathematics research
articles has been almost completely neglected to date. A few reasons for this can be speculated,
including a) the assumption that mathematics writing is similar to that in the well-covered areas
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of science and engineering, b) the difficulty in analyzing mathematics research articles due to
their often extremely specialized content, and c) the difficulty in locating expert mathematicians
who would be willing to serve as specialist informants. In this paper, we present an overview of
mathematics writing based on a corpus-based analysis of 410 refereed journal articles covering
one complete year of publications in a high-impact mathematics journal. The two-million word
corpus was divided into sections, and then analyzed using various corpus tools. Next, the
analysis was interpreted by the authors, both of whom have a background in mathematics and
one of whom is an active and well-published researcher in mathematics. Results of the study
reveal that some macro-level aspects of mathematics writing, such as the basic structuring of
titles and introductions, can resemble writing in the fields of science and engineering. On the
other hand, many features of mathematics writing diverge greatly from the established norms.
We offer reasons for these differences and suggest strategies for teaching writing to a mixed
group of science and engineers that may include mathematics majors.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

420

Penerbit

Sydney : Asian ESP Journal Press., 2013

Deskripsi Fisik

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Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

2206-0979

Klasifikasi

420

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Tipe Media

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Edisi

vol.9 issue 2

Subjek

Open Source
Project

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