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This article intends to provide, through the scientific, humanistic, and highly practical lens of Text Linguistics, a rhetorical and discursive description of the Finishes Inspection Report written by Interior Design students of Universidad de Panamá. Throughout the analysis of the specialized corpus IINADI-UP 2019, its rhetorical organization (sections, subsections and rhetorical moves) was described; the most important moves according to their frequency and amplitude were identified, and the discursive strategies employed in the second one were characterized by describing its vocabulary. Based on the results, it can be concluded that the Finishes Inspection Report is a subgenre of the technical report, which has both a distinctive communicative purpose and rhetorical and discursive characteristics typical of Interior Design sphere: a purpose focused on the improvement of the inner finishes conditions of the buildings and the use of technical vocabulary proper of this professional context.
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