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(15) Focusing on the changed role of planning within the United Kingdom
Foreign & Commonwealth Office... (FPb3)
Step 2 – The Method of Data Analysis, briefly denoting what methods or strategies
are used in the research article, is signalled by the use of the nouns model, strategy,
method, procedure, design, theory, analysis and the verbs present, model, modify, employ,
illustrate and use.
(16) Analysis is centred on an interrogation of the social policy model and the
cognitive aspects of the process, especially as they are to be seen in the
production of national policy plans and the responses to these on the part of
different EU actors. (SPa1)
(17) We employ two multilevel modelling procedures for estimating the
contextual variations in micro-level economic voting effects: a conventional
pooled approach and a two-stage procedure… (EPb6)
In Step 3 – Materials and Data the authors point to the materials and data which are
the basis of the research analysis. They use the noun data and literature preceded by the
verb phrase draw on, prepositional phrases, signalling the period the corpus has been
taken from and the verbs examine, expose and analyse in context with the given nouns:
(18) It exposes and analyses Strauss' trenchant critique of liberal modernity and
then offers a critical discussion on the nature of his legacy and the reception of
his ideas in the United States since the 1950s. (FPa4)
(19) Because the principal impact of the EAC is indirect, affecting election
administration through the states, we draw on the “tools of government”
literature to frame the discussion. (EPa1)
Summarising results is the next move identified in the analysed corpus. In this move
the authors present the major findings of their research articles. In contrast to the previous
moves, Move 4 does not comprise steps. As far as our corpus is concerned, Summarising
results constitutes the structure of 93.75% of the social and foreign policy and 81.25% of
the election policy RA abstracts. As its aim is to reveal the findings of the research
article, this move is distinguished by the following signals:
a) nouns findings, results, article, study, discussion, and analysis functioning as
inanimate subjects and first person pronouns I and we performing the function of
animate subjects:
(20) The study reveals that none of the party-in-electorate conditions is capable
of producing partisan bias independently. (EPb4)
(21) We find that voters are most likely to form party attachments when group
identities are salient and complimentary. We also find that institutions that assist
voters in retrospectively evaluating parties—specifically, strong party discipline
and few parties in government—increase partisanship. (EPb8)
b) third person sg. pronoun it having anaphoric reference. It functions as a subject only
after the authors have introduced Move 2 and Move 3:
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