Information Development in Arabic Research Article Abstract

Abstract

This paper attempted to see how thematic progression patterns are used in the
research article abstracts written in English by research article writers from the Arabic
Literature discipline. To this end, 20 research article abstracts were extracted from the
Arabic Literature Journal published in 2012 and were analyzed based on thematic
progression model proposed by McCabe (1999). The data analysis reported greater use
of the constant thematic progression pattern compared to the linear thematic
progression pattern. This study may have implication for research article writers in the
Arabic Literature discipline.