Abstract
With a view to providing international students with guides for writing articles in social science, discourses of the discussions in twenty articles including ten case studies from Journal of Business Management and ten historical document-based studies from Asian Studies were analyzed with the moves and steps included. The moves "focusing," "fact description," "quotation," "evaluative description," and "inference/interpretation" appeared in the both groups of articles. The most remarkable characteristic observed was the presence of a wide variety of evaluative comments by the authors. Although evaluative comments are often discouraged by instruction from making as being too subjective, they were found to form an essential part of academic efforts. These findings revealed that adequate skill training to express one's evaluation should be incorporated into the instructions for academic writing.
