Awareness of abstract writing skill plays an important role for research article (RA) abstract writers to meet the discourse community expectations.In academic writing, writers should persuade readers to read the whole article by writing an effective abstract in terms of both content and rhetorical structure. This paper utilised Swales ' (1990)
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