Move Analysis in Ph.D. Theses Abstracts: Comparing Native and Non-Native Corpora
Table 5: Rhetorical variations from the Ph.D. abstracts between NNSU and NSU
Percentage | NNSU | NSU | Total | Conventionality | |
Move 1 | 90% | 4 | 5 | 9 | Conventional |
Move 2 | 20% | 2 | 0 | 2 | Optional |
Move 3Move 4Move 5 | 100%90%50% | 545 | 550 | 1095 | ConventionalConventionalOptional |