(Cortes, 2004;Hyland, 2008a;Lorés, 2004;Martín, 2002;Swales, 1990;Wang & Chan, 2011;Wang & Kao, 2012).
taking the contribution of the previous studies, this current reserach sets out to explore the variation of tense within the reporting verbs among the transitions of moves via the structural analysis in JA abstracts.