We selected 30 complete research articles (RAs) in clinical medicine written by native speakers both from English and Chinese journals, and made a detailed comparative genre analysis of them with reference to Swales’ model of genre analysis and Nwogu’s schema. Our results showed that English and Chinese RAs in clinical medicine shared generally a similar generic structure of 11 moves as well as present some obvious differences in the frequency, sequence, and length of these moves. Our findings will provide some practical guidance for Chinese medical workers in reading and writing medical RA.
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