How Do Empirical Biomedical Research Articles Argue? Examining the Layers of Rhetorical, Domain-Specific, and Citation-Based Argumentation

Abstract

Argumentation in research articles has been analyzed from a variety of perspectives, yet there is no integrative description of how these various accounts of scholarly argumentation interrelate. Since a full analysis of scholarly argumentation must take into account domain-specific elements, this work focuses on biomedical research articles, to examine how scholarly argumentation is layered by combining argument structures relating to research methods, citations, and rhetorical aspects of argumentation.