A Survey of Writing Techniques, Authorship, Tenses, Voices, and Length of Opening Sentences of Medical Research Articles

Authors

Phan Banpho

Publication Date

2004-04-01

Abstract

A large number of genre analyses have investigated schematic units or "moves" of many parts of medical research articles. The present analysis deals with the inner element of the first move, the introduction, section. It explore the techniques for writing opening sentences, and investigates authorship, tenses, voices, and sentence length. The subjects were 167 opening sentences from two world journals in medical science, the Annals of Internal Medicine and The Lancet, which represent American English and British English, respectively. A concordancing computer program. Microsoft Word, and the SPSS (v. 11.5) were used. The findings of this study suggest that most opening sentences, which comprise an average of about 22 words, give facts in the present simple active by citation of previous findings.

DOI

10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.35.1.4

First Page

69

Last Page

87

Recommended Citation

Banpho, Phan (2004) "A Survey of Writing Techniques, Authorship, Tenses, Voices, and Length of Opening Sentences of Medical Research Articles," PASAA: Vol. 35: Iss. 1, Article 5.
DOI: 10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.35.1.4
Available at: https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/pasaa/vol35/iss1/5