4.4.1　Method

The second part of the analysis is informed by the findings of metatext analysis.The researcher uses the communicative functions and content identified in metatext analysis to set out an initial set of moves and steps,and then expanded the model with new functions and content that were identified through move analysis.The analysis was conducted in a top-down manner,that is,move units were firstly identified based on communicative functions;and then the move as a whole was broken down into steps based on the content.The results of the text analysis were used to triangulate the findings of metatext analysis to build a refined move model.

Twenty percent of the texts in the corpus were inter-coded by the second coder using the move model as the coding scheme.The two coders agreed on 94% of the coding units at the move level.The agreement level beyond chance was calculated with the Kappa statistic.The interrater reliability for the coders was found to be Kappa=0.93,p ＜0.001.