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Move Steps Evidence and Justification

Move 1 Establishing a Territory

- Citations

- Claiming centrality

- Making topic
generalizations

(of increasing specifity)

- Reviewing items of
previous

research

Move 2 Establishing a niche

- Citations

- Counter claiming

- Indicating a gap

- Question raising (adding


to

what is known)

- Continuing a tradition

(optional-presenting
positive

justification)
Move 3 Occupying the niche
(Presenting the present
work)

- Citations

- Outlined purposes

- present research

descriptively and/or

purposively (obligatory)

- (optional-presenting

research questions or

hypotheses)

- (optional-definitional

clarifications)

- (optional-summarized

methods)

- announced principal

findings (PISF-or
outcomes)

- (PISF-stating the value of

the present research)

- Indicated RA structure

(PISF-outlining the
structure

of the paper
PISF: Probable in some fields but unlikely in others

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