Rhetorical structure, sequence, and variation: A step‐driven move analysis of applied linguistics conference abstracts

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) practitioners have widely adopted Swales' (1990) move analysis to investigate the rhetorical construction of various academic genres, particularly research article part‐genres. While this research has deepened our understanding of academic genre practices, advances in move analysis methods have uncovered important research considerations. Following Moreno and Swales' (2018) advocacy for step‐level analysis,...