Structural and stylistic characteristics of scientific articles in English

Abstract

Introduction. Teaching professionally oriented scientific writing to MA students of linguistic specialities proves to be a necessary and complicated step to develop the students’ ability to take an active role in international research in their professional field, which is the testimony of effective integration of the Ukrainian educational systeminto the European Higher Education Area. One of the relevant genres to teach the MA students is the scientific article, and developing the corresponding methodology calls for the deep analysis of the scientific article’s structural and stylistic characteristics. Thus the present research is due to serve the essential prerequisite for the methodology of teaching professionally oriented scientific writing. Purpose. The purpose of this research is defining the structural and stylistic characteristics of scientific articles in English, which pertain to the subject aspect of the content issues of professionally oriented scientific writing teaching methodology for future teachers of English. Methods. The author explores the most significant characteristics of the modern scientific discourse in English: the typical features of the scientific functional style, the classification of substyles in the scientific functional style framework, the genre paradigm of scientific discourse for the scientific substyle. The author also suggests the linguistic analysis of the genre markers of scientific articles in English. Results. The analysis of compositional characteristics of scientific articles in English covers the seven obligatory structural elements. The analysis of stylistic characteristics in this respect provides a variety of typical means to express the promotional author strategies on lexical and grammatical levels. The article also displays the analysis of headlines of scientific articles in English; this gives the idea that the headlines are realized in six structural-syntactic models and nine author promotional strategies.