Genre analysis has provided many insights into the structure of research articles, but engineering articles have often been grouped with the hard sciences, obscuring their distinctive features. This study reports the development of a research-based curriculum for engineering writing in an English as a lingua franca context, including a published textbook and ancillary materials, during eight years of action research. A new textual analysis method incorporating ideas from genre analysis and argumentation theory, component analysis, was developed to allow students to describe the structure of research articles. The instructor and students, with background support from their advisors, used this to co-construct an understanding of the prototypical structures of engineering articles. Student input helped clarify the analysis categories, textbook descriptions, and assessments. Component analysis may be useful to writing instructors as a basis for quickly understanding how research articles differ, reducing the time necessary to develop research-based curricula for other fields or genres.

体裁分析为研究论文的结构提供了许多见解，但是工程论文经常与硬科学归为一类，从而掩盖了它们的独特特征。这项研究报告了在为期八年的行动研究中，开发了一种以研究为基础的英语作为通用语的工程写作课程，包括已出版的教科书和辅助材料。开发了一种新的文本分析方法，该方法结合了体裁分析和论证理论，成分分析的思想，以使学生能够描述研究文章的结构。导师和学生在其顾问的背景支持下，以此共同构建对工程论文原型结构的理解。学生的意见有助于弄清分析类别，教科书说明和评估。成分分析可能有助于编写讲师，作为快速了解研究文章之间差异的基础，从而减少了为其他领域或体裁开发基于研究的课程所需的时间。