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51acknowledging and exchanging information on former research provides insight aboutthe identification of Move 1 in the CARS model, and vice versa.) As a result, theproductivity of Swales’ model has been evidenced by the work of other genre analystsin their efforts to map the repertoire of academic genres as, for example, Salager-Mayer,1990, 1992, on the article abstract; and Dudley-Evans, 1986, 1994, on MSc dissertationdiscussion sections. I will concentrate my comments on the latter.In his analysis of Plant Biology dissertations, for example, Dudley-Evans(1994:224) detects three general parts in the discussion sections which appear in asequence that can be represented as Introduction>Evaluation>Conclusion. In theIntroduction, the writer states the aim of the research and in the Conclusion, the writersummarizes the central issues in the work and offers suggestions for future research(Dudley-Evans, 1986:141).The main body of the texts in the corpus is devoted to Evaluation, where the writerprovides a detailed comment on the main results and claims of the work (Dudley-Evans,1994:225). The opening move in Evaluation can be either Statement of Results orFindings. They are functionally the same, the difference consisting in that Statement ofResults presents a numerical value or refers to a graph or table of results, and Findingsdoes not present actual figures. In the sequence, there may appear Reference to PreviousResearch that can be preceded or not by the move Claim in which the writer presentsgeneralizations based on the results obtained, which offers contributions to the currentstate of knowledge on the topic.