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114was also evidenced in the report on the editors’ interviews and on the literature on thegenre in Chapter 3.The 60 texts, divided evenly among linguistics, chemistry, and economics, wereanalyzed and compared for moves and sub-functions. As each text was being coded formoves, some difficulties arose in the classification of ‘text parts that seemed not to fallinto any of the moves’ (Fredrickson and Swales, 1994:7). These parts were duly notedand will be discussed in Chapter 5.4.2.2 Questions to be answered by the qualitative analysisAs stated in the introduction (section 1.2), the first hypothesis of this research isthat the texts in the corpus will present certain general invariable features of rhetoricalorganization (all texts will have a closing move, for example) across disciplines. Intrying to elaborate a schematic description –– which I will call ‘model’ for lack of abetter term –– of the rhetorical organization of the texts in these 60 BRs, informationprogression patterns in the texts are examined having in mind the following questions:a) Which core rhetorical moves appear in all three disciplinary areas sothat different BRs are recognized as exemplars of the same genre?b) Does the rhetorical organization of the genre vary across disciplines interms of type and order of moves and sub-functions?c) How do reviewers open and close their texts? Do reviewers provide afinal recommendation? How are opening and closing moves realized?