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English for Specific Purposes 54 (2019) 15–34
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Articulating societal benefits in grant proposals: Move
analysis of Broader Impacts
Elena Cotos 1
Iowa State University, Department of English, 317 Ross Hall, Ames, IA 50011, United States
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Article history: Being ‘scholarly’ includes the pursuit of grants, which requires understanding and satis-
Available online 11 December 2018 fying the review criteria of specific funding organizations. An important merit review
criterion against which the National Science Foundation (NSF) evaluates grant proposals is
Keywords: Broader Impacts (BI). The two-fold purpose of this study was to 1) identify the rhetorical
Move analysis conventions of stand-alone BI sections, which are expected to demonstrate the potential of
Grant proposals a proposed project to benefit society, and 2) compare the use of rhetorical conventions in
Part-genre
the BI sections of funded and non-funded proposals. In the tradition of genre theory, the
Broader Impacts
Corpora study employed a top-down move analysis of a corpus of 91 BI texts from proposals in
different disciplines submitted to the NSF. The analysis yielded a descriptive model of 3
moves and 9 steps, named Contextualize-Demonstrate-Predict, which was applied to the
annotation of the entire corpus. De