In his book, Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings, John M. Swales (1990) conducts genre analysis of other researchers' work, as well as his own corpus of research articles. He also looks at style manuals. His work suggests that in addition to analyzing research articles in journals, beginning researchers can also benefit from consulting style manuals, such as the American Physical Society Style Manual or A Guide to Writing and Publishing in the Social and Behavior Sciences. Researchers can also look to the work of other scholars who have done genre analysis, including Latour and Woolgar (1979), Knorr-Cetina (1981), and Berkenkotter, Huckin, and Ackerman (1988). However, the advice offered in style manuals and the analysis of rhetorical moves made in published research articles does not always match, which suggests that researchers cannot always rely on style prescriptions (Swales and Najjar, 1987).
