Rhetorical moves in problem statement section of Iranian EFL postgraduate students' theses

• Main Authors: Nimehchisalem, Vahid, Tarvirdizadeh, Zahra, Sayed Paidary, Sara, Mat Hussin, Nur Izyan Syamimi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Australian International Academic Centre 2016
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/52896/1/Rhetorical%20moves%20in%20problem%20statement%20section%20of%20Iranian%20EFL%20postgraduate%20students%27%20theses.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/52896/; http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/alls/article/view/2507

The Problem Statement (PS) section of a thesis, usually a subsection of the first chapter, is supposed to justify the objectives of the study. Postgraduate students are often ignorant of the rhetorical moves that they are expected to make in their PS. This descriptive study aimed to explore the rhet...