ABSTRACT
English research articles (RA) writing is gaining growing attention following the trend of internationalisation of universities. Under the pressure of “publishing or perishing”, MA/MS students as novice researchers are aspiring to publish in international high impact journals where English is a major language. To ensure that students could acquire the knowledge gradually and confidently, thus maintaining a positive self-efficacy in RA writing, teaching and learning cycle was implemented and scaffolded support was provided until students could accomplish the writing tasks independently. Genre-based instruction has been implemented widely in writing instruction for the last three decades, especially in RA, a highly conventionalised genre. Move analysis, developed by John Swales as an essential element of his genre analytical framework, is employed so extensively that it is almost considered a synonym of genre analysis. Genre transferability is the ability to transfer knowledge of a certain genre to writing tasks of another genre.
