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Makale Özeti:
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The current study provided cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary analyses of the distribution of directives
in discussion and conclusion sections of English and Persian research articles (RAs) in disciplines of
physics, chemistry, counseling, and sociology, representing hard and soft sciences, respectively. To that
aim, 80 RAs from both English and Persian journals between 2000 and 2012 were selected. The RAs
were textually analyzed to determine the distribution of directives. Findings revealed a significant
difference between Persian hard and soft science RAs in the employment of directives, with soft science
writers employing directives more frequently in discussion and conclusion sections in comparison with
hard science writers. However, no significant difference was found in the distribution of directives
across discussion and conclusion sections of English soft and hard RAs. Moreover, findings did not show
a significant difference across Persian and English RAs. Overall, results suggest that Persian and English
academic writers tend to follow a similar generic and discursive trend in the employment of directives
in their discussion and conclusion sections pointing to the universal nature of directives as persuasive
strategies employed by academic writers in canonical branches of science. The findings of the present
study might raise learners' awareness of the conventions and lexico-grammatical features of academic
writing in Persian and/or English RAs.
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