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212considerably lower (58,528) than that in economics and less than half of that inlinguistics (82,417 words). This pattern was also observed in individual texts so thatchemistry BRs were found to be shorter (average of 557 words) than those in economics(975 words) and less than half the length of BRs in linguistics (1,374 words). Anexamination of moves in the three disciplines revealed that these differences also persistin the number of sentences in each move, as presented in Table 6-1.Table 6-Erro! Apenas o documento principal.- Average number of sentences permoveMOVE 1 MOVE 2 MOVE 3 MOVE 4ChemistryEconomicsLinguisticsAverage acrossdisciplines4.35 11.2 5.6 2.855.6 18.8 12.3 3.756.8 21.1 8.55 3.855.58 17.07 8.82 3.48The results in Table 6-1 show a regular increase in the amount of sentences fromchemistry to linguistics, with economics in intermediary position, and a gradual increasein the number of sentences in the development portion of texts (Moves 2 and 3).Although these results are summarized in the form of an average number ofsentences per move (representing a range of BR length including those texts wheremoves are only one or two sentences long), the opening and the closing moves, ingeneral, tend to be much shorter than those in the development of the text. While