Patterns of formulation of objectives of research articles written in English in two disciplines: linguistics and biotechnology

Abstract The present work, framed in the area of research on the construction and transmission of knowledge through academic discourse, inquiries about functional and textual patterns of goal formulation in a corpus of 20 research articles (RA) of the subject of Linguistics and Biotechnology, written in English. The general results indicate that there is similarity between the five patterns identified by González (2011) and those found in the present research with texts written in English. Similarly, differences in the use of these patterns are detected in the subjects studied in this research. Finally, the study reveals a new functional and textual pattern of formulation of objectives in RA related to the presentation of the research objective through the methodology used.