The abstract of a research article (RA) is a text that summarizes the objectives, methodology, results and conclusions of the study. It reproduces the rhetorical structure of the article, in addition to give an account of the way in which the disciplines organize and configure the epistemic, methodological, expression and result discussion framework. This research aims to characterize the scheme of rhetorical movements in the abstracts of research articles in the field of psychology and education, from the perspective of gender analysis (Hyland, 2000). The corpus consists of 58 summaries written in Spanish. Among the findings, we highlight that the movement structure that shows the highest number of occurrences is the structure M2, M3, M4, M5 with 27.59%, followed by the structure M2, M3, M4 with 15.52% and finally, the structure M1, M2, M3, M4 which corresponds to 12.07% of the total of the abstracts analyzed in this work. Only in five summaries we found the structure that includes the five steps (M1, M2, M3, M4, M5), which represents 8.62%. In the same way we find other structures that we could consider as variants. We conclude that for the construction of a RA abstract in Spanish and in the studied fields only three main moves are required (M2, M3 and M4) that account for the objectives, methodology and results, essential aspects in the construction of a summary. However, the passage from one move to another is not very clear, since in some cases the prototypical nominal or verbal structure is dispensed with.
