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2752 Differences in the order of presentation of rhetorical sub-functions withinmoves.3 Differences in the frequency of rhetorical sub-functions.With regard to item 1 above, the results show that BRs differ in length and containvariable emphasis on sub-functions across disciplines: detailed description forlinguistics, detailed evaluation for economics, and shorter and more global descriptionand evaluation for chemistry.While sentences realizing Moves 1 and 4 are similar in length across disciplines(closer to the average), some special tendencies were observed in Moves 2 and 3.Chemistry BRs were found to be consistently shorter than those in economics and lessthan half the length of those in linguistics.In linguistics, Move 2, which serves a more descriptive purpose, encompasses amuch greater number of sentences than economics and is almost twice as long as that inchemistry. This would suggest that BRs in linguistics favor more extensive descriptionsof the book than BRs in the other two fields.In economics, Move 3 tends to be much longer than in the other two fields. Thiswould suggest that economists tend to concentrate their focus on the explicit evaluationof the book more consistently than reviewers in the other two disciplines.In chemistry, the number of sentences realizing Moves 2 and 3 is much smaller.Considering that Moves 2 and 3 serve the purpose of describing and evaluating specificparts of the book in detail, and that Moves 1 and 4 have a more global perspective, thenthe fact that chemistry BRs have shorter stretches of text realizing Moves 2 and 3 than