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201Supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), in which a supercritical gas is used asthe mobile phase, has established a place as a third technique intermediatebetween gas chromatography.In [C#23], the reviewer uses the strategies of repeating key words from the title inthe opening sentence where a topic generalization is made. All of the remaining BRs(22.50%) contain this modality of initiating the text by making allusion to the main topicof the publication. In addition, the analysis of the linguistic forms displayed in theremaining 120 texts confirmed the same tendency already found in the qualitativeanalysis of the first 60 texts: reviewers tend to use consistently more the constructionThe/This book/monograph/ volume (44.17%) in the opening statements in BRs.The numbers in Table 5-8 are highly significant in that they show the results of arandom search for linguistic items and not the results of a detailed text analysis, donesentence by sentence. The tendency of the remaining 120 texts to display the linguisticclues for the moves suggests that the genre tends to have a highly homogenic vocabularyat specific points. This tendency would suggest that there are indeed linguistic featuresthat convey certain rhetorical meanings that are productively used by reviewers andwhich, as a result, become associated with the genre. The best examples would be theevaluative expressions of recommendation such as ‘I strongly recommend this book’ andlexical phrases expressing conclusion in Move 4.In the course of this chapter, it has been demonstrated that BRs in all threedisciplines have a consistent pattern of information organization with correspondent