Structure and Pattern of Introduction of Business

Structure and Pattern of Introduction of Business Related Discipline Research Articles

I. Introduction

Business and economics papers have made a significant contribution to the development of the corporations and economics growth. However, it may be difficult for the readers to fully understand the materials if the structure of the papers is very complicated. In recent decades, there is an increasing trend in the complicacy of business and economics papers (Ellison, 2000). This phenomenon will induce more complexity in comprehending profound research papers. Regarding it, some basic models have been invented to give a general guideline of the building blocks of the research papers. For example, for writing an introduction of an article, Swales (1990) introduced a rhetorical pattern called create-a-research-space (CARS) which segments the introduction into three major parts, namely move 1, 2 and 3. The move 1 aims to give a background information of the topic of the research paper, depicting a general picture of which area the paper will fall into. The next move known as niche basically serves to connect move 1 and 3, illustrating the motive and inspiration of the paper (Swales & Feak, 2012). Followed by niche is the main purpose of the article. By presenting in either a purposive or descriptive way, the author can show a ultimate goal of the article. However, although some kinds of standardizations have been made to formalize the research papers, the construction of journals articles may vary extremely across different disciplines. Especially in business and economic areas, the structures of the introductions do not follow the CARS model. Thus, the primary objective of this paper is to examine the organization and pattern of the introduction of business and economics related research papers.

II. Research Methodology

To explore the structure of the introduction, I randomly selected fifteen business papers from Duke library and other online resources such as the google scholar, examining their introductions separately in order to find the most appropriate ones with fully developed patterns and distinct features. Finally I chose five research papers from the pool and closely analyzed how the moves are sequenced and shown based on the CARS model. Do the structures of these five samples thoroughly apply the CARS model or deviate from it? Next, I constructed a table listing all the relative characteristics of introduction including the details of three moves from the CARS model, the order of the moves, the tense the authors used, having figure or not, and using nominatives or not. Finally I organized the traits of each article and finalized the result. However, two major constraints of examination methodology are that the sample size is not big enough to achieve a fairly precise outcome, and also the time span of the