Nowadays, in many professional contexts native-speakers of Spanish are required to write
technical texts in English. Texts belonging to the same genre follow certain rhetorical and
phraseological conventions. The aim of this paper is to assist in the technical writing of this
particular text type through a discourse analysis of their rhetorical structure. A corpus of
technical brochures has been compiled and analyzed into moves and steps. Next, the most
typical lexico-grammatical structures in each move and step have been extracted. The …

Nowadays, in many professional contexts native-speakers of Spanish are required to write
technical texts in English. Texts belonging to the same genre follow certain rhetorical and
phraseological conventions. The aim of this paper is to assist in the technical writing of this
particular text type through a discourse analysis of their rhetorical structure. A corpus of
technical brochures has been compiled and analyzed into moves and steps. Next, the most
typical lexico-grammatical structures in each move and step have been extracted. The …