An Investigation Into the Layout Features of Introductions in English Linguistics Papers

The “Introduction” section in research papers have attracted the attention of some famous linguists in recent decades (Swales 1981, 1990; Zappen 1983; Anthony 1999; Samraj 2002). However, in Vietnam little information on this issue has been introduced. This paper presents the moves, steps and patterns of an important model which is called a “Create A Research Space” model - CARS (Swales, 1990) through the examination of a selection of 60 Introductions of English Linguistics Papers (IELPs). The aim of the paper is to investigate and analyse Swales' CARS model to discover the patterns used in the introductions. The study has discovered 7 patterns with different frequencies of occurrence. We hope that the findings of this study can be applied in writing introductions for research papers in linguistics