application of personal pronouns in introduction section of english medical research articles
【abstract】 aim: to investigate and contrast the personal pronouns used in introduction sections of english medical research articles written by chinese medical writers (cmws) and native english speaking medical writers (nmws). methods: the personal pronouns used in 50 introduction sections written by cmws and 20 ones by nmws were investigated and compared using esp genre analysis and the contrastive approach. results: the first personal pronouns were found mainly used in their plural forms in subjective cases and more favorably used in the introduction sections written by nmws (85%) than those by cmws (54%) (p