The present study investigates the rhetorical
structure of theoretical research article introductions written by
undergraduate students in the field of English linguistics and literature. The
aim of the study was to see if English-language introductions written by
Hungarian students majoring in English conformed to those typically written by
native speakers, and to examine if two disciplines, English literature and
linguistics observe different conventions in terms of rhetorical structure in
introductions. The findings suggest that although on the whole the Hungarian
introductions displayed the elements typically identified in research articles
written by native expert writers, discipline-specific variations emerged
