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Corresponding Author: Shadi Shirani, E-mail: [shadi_shirani66@yahoo.com](shadi_shirani66@yahoo.com) |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| ARTICLE INFO | ABSTRACT\u003Cbr>Genre analysis dealing with the study of situated language in a particular context is regarded as a crucial component in every communication in general and academic writing texts in particular. Furthermore, recently it has been set as a requirement for the graduated students to pursue a shared rhetorical pattern for generating an academic text. Several researchers have recommended detailed explanations for rhetorical structures of various parts of academic texts, and an extensive literature is dedicated to investigate different academic genres such as research articles, theses, and dissertations in English. But, there are not enough studies that work on the thesis as a whole product and analyze all sections together and not separately. Therefore, 40 M.A. theses produced by Iranian TEFL students at Islamic Azad University (IAU), Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch were collected and analyzed for the rhetorical structures of the Introduction, Method, Results, and Discussion (IMRD) sections in order to accomplish the objectives of the study. Through calculating the frequencies and percentages of data, it was revealed that a number of moves in different sections was absent in the theses. |\n| Article history\u003Cbr>Received: December 17, 2017\u003Cbr>Accepted: February 19, 2018\u003Cbr>Published: April 30, 2018\u003Cbr>Volume: 9 Issue: 2\u003Cbr>Advance access: March 2018 |  |\n| Conflicts of interest: None\u003Cbr>Funding: None |  |\n| Key words:\u003Cbr>Academic Texts,\u003Cbr>Genre Analysis, Iranian TEFL Students, Rhetorical Features |  |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nOver the last twenty years a large body of studies has been dedicated to the academic writing. Writing in academic settings can be definitely difficult and inconvenient for native and especially nonnative speakers. Furthermore, academic writing has always been the most significant focus of formal education and is an increasingly important area in applied linguistics. Furthermore, after Swales’ (1990) influential work in the area of genre analysis, this issue has become the focus of a significant number of research studies and researchers as well.  \nAccordingly, a considerable amount of literature has been published in genre analysis of academic writing. These studies have investigated different sections of theses or RAs, which are Introduction, Method, Results, and Discussion (IMRD). Most studies in the area of genre analysis have only focused on these sections separately, for example, just on the introduction section (Jalilifar, 2010) and so forth.  \nAlthough extensive research has been carried out on genre analysis of academic writing, no single study exists which works on the thesis as a whole product and analyze IMRD sections altogether and not separately. With the intention of filling this gap, this study was carried out to scrutinize all of the abovementioned sections of M.A. theses altogether so that the students’ actual academic productions would be analyzed to see how their problem may be remedied.  \nThe major objective of this study was to investigate M.A. theses written by Iranian EFL students majoring in TEFL at IAU, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch to see to what extent they observe the rhetorical structures of different sections that are approved by the field experts. In another word, to what extent these academic writings are in line with what has been published as the standard and acceptable frameworks.  \nFurthermore, by gaining some information about the features of master theses being written by Iranian graduate students, and also by pinpointing their drawbacks and their deviation from s","cbCait35tR9XvtJR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait35tR9XvtJR","pdf",355049,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Research gap and rationale\n## Study objectives\n## Research questions\n# Article information\n## Article history\n## Conflicts of interest and funding\n# Keywords","[{\"question\":\"What is the main goal of the genre analysis in this study?\",\"answer\":\"To examine how Iranian TEFL MA theses observe the rhetorical structures of the Introduction, Method, Results, and Discussion (IMRD) sections as expected frameworks.\"},{\"question\":\"How many theses were analyzed and which sections were studied?\",\"answer\":\"Forty MA theses produced by Iranian TEFL students were collected and analyzed, focusing on the Introduction, Method, Results, and Discussion (IMRD) sections.\"},{\"question\":\"What did the frequency and percentage analysis reveal?\",\"answer\":\"Some rhetorical moves were found to be absent in different IMRD sections of the theses.\"}]","Genre Analysis of Iranian TEFL Students’ Master Theses - Article | PDF",1792068069,18]