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154(30%), the reviewers do this by presenting statements about known evidence, facts, ortheories in the field. At this point, reviewers do what can be called ‘topicgeneralizations’ named after Sub-function 2 of Move 1 in Swales’ CARS model(Swales, 1990) of research article introductions.As already definedby Swales (ibid.:145-7), statements that make topicgeneralizations in research article introductions generally fall into two categories:statements about knowledge or practice, or statements about phenomena. Likewise,reviewers tend to present the same two kinds of topic generalizations. The first type oftopic generalization in BRs refers to the current body of knowledge in the discipline, oras Swales explains in relation to research articles, ‘the state of the art –– of knowledge,of technique, or ... current requirements for further progress’ (ibid.:146):[C#5] ...(Sub-function 4) the technique has now been clearly shown to havemany widespread applications in analytical chemistry. One of these importantapplications, of course, is atomic spectroscopy...[L#18] (Sub-function 4) How authentic student communication in the foreignlanguage classroom can be realized is probably the most pervasive professionalquestion today. Therefore, the focus of this review is on the pedagogy related tomeaningful student discourse in DSL. )[E#7] (Sub-function 4) Privatization has become an important British export. Apolicy which, ten years ago, was favoured only by what seemed a lunatic fringenow occupies the centre of the political stage, and has been imitated around theworld.