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The SFL genre approach was initially devoted to the primary and secondary education curriculum (Veel, 2000; Coffin, 2006; Martin & Rose, 2008; Derewianka & Jone, 2016). In recent years, scholarly interest has shifted to deconstruct and analyze different macrogenres into elemental genres in tertiary and academic contexts. Nevertheless, how the TCM articles are composed by elemental genres still remains unexplored. Given this gap, the study analyzed the elemental genres deployed to construct research articles in traditional Chinese medicine.