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Over the last decade, the spread and influence of English has contributed to the emergence of an area of ​​inquiry called English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Much attention has been given to ESP because it is considered an effective way of teaching English. In the field of ESP, genre analysis has been a widely recognized concept concerning the linguistic analysis of language. Since the early 1980s, interest in genre-centered approaches to the analysis of written and spoken discourse has been motivated by the need to provide satisfactory models and descriptions of academic and scientific texts and to improve non-native students' ability to understand and interpret to produce them (Holmes, 1997). According to Bhatia (1993a, 1993b), the notion of genre analysis offers a powerful and useful system of analysis that allows for a much "thicker" observation on repeated communicative functions than that offered by any other system of analysis in the literature. . He believes that genre analysis has become a powerful and useful tool for arriving at meaningful form-function correlations that can be used for a variety of applied linguistic purposes, including teaching English for specific purposes. Consequently, in order to carry out an analysis of a particular type of text, genre study should be employed to gain knowledge of how texts are organised, what linguistic features are used and why they are written and used by specialized communities as well as are (Bhatia, 1993a, 1993b).Genre is an example of successfully achieving a specific communicative purpose using conventionalized knowledge of linguistic and discursive resources (Bhatia, 1993a: 16).Genre analysis is a study of language. .. center of paper.. ....Swales, J.M. (1990). Genre analysis: English in academic and research contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Tinkham, T. (1993). The effects of semantic clustering on second language vocabulary learning. System, 21, 371-380. doi:10.1016/0346-251X(93)90027-ETripp, D. (1993). Critical incidents in teaching: Developing professional judgment. London: Routledge.Wallace, M.J. (1998). Action research for language teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Waring, R. (1997). The negative effects of learning words in semantic sets: A replication. System, 25, 261-274. doi:10.1016/S0346-251X(97)00013-4Watson Todd, R. (2002). Find a topic for research. ThaiTESOL Focus, 15, 20-24.Watson Todd, R. (2003). How to be a creative teacher. English Teaching Professional, 29, 50-52.Watson Todd, R. (2004). Switching schemes. REFLECTIONS, 6, 1-8.