Scientific article in educational sciences: A textual genre with a uniform appearance composed of sections with distinct characteristics

Scientific article in educational sciences: A textual genre with a uniform appearance composed of sections with distinct characteristics

• Christiane Blaser, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

• Judith Émery-Bruneau, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada

• Stephanie Lanctôt, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

doi : https://dx.doi.org/10.18162/fp.2021.548

Résumé

The scientific article is a textual genre that is omnipresent in the academic community, which can take various forms according to the disciplinary field. Considering this, what are the characteristics of the scientific article in the domain of sciences of education? In order to answer the question, we analyzed seventy articles in French drawn from six Canadian scientific journals, focusing specifically on their communicational, textual, semantic, grammatical, and visual characteristics. It appears that some of these characteristics vary from one section to another. As such, it is therefore important when the objective is didactic to approach the scientific article like the sum of its parts rather than a monolithic block.

Abstract

The scientific article is a textual genre that is omnipresent in the academic community, which can take various forms according to the disciplinary field. Considering this, what are the characteristics of the scientific article in the domain of sciences of education? In order to answer the question, we analyzed seventy articles in French drawn from six Canadian scientific journals, focusing specifically on their communicational, textual, semantic, grammatical, and visual characteristics. It appears that some of these characteristics vary from one section to another. As such, it is therefore important when the objective is didactic to approach the scientific article like the sum of its parts rather than a monolithic block.