Developing a Writing Template of Research Article Abstracts: A Corpus-Based Method

Writing research article abstracts is not always an easy task for novice researchers who are not fluent in English such as in the context of Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna Tak. Therefore, a writing template with particular language patterns and samples is useful for training staff, students and interested people to prepare their research abstracts in English. The purpose of the present study is to use a corpus-based method to analyze the language of abstracts in engineering, science, technology, business and liberal arts. The analysis focused on four moves: objectives, methodology, results and conclusion. Then, the results were used as guidelines for developing a writing template of research article abstracts.