An attempt made in this work is to define the grammatical aspects of the
moves in the generic structure of popular scientific reports (PSRs). The basic aspects
contained in the theoretical part are move analysis; the process of science
popularization, a definition of PSRs and the modified structure of PSRs. In the practical
part 35 popularised reports randomly chosen in internet were examined in detail using
the modified structure based on the Nwogu's structure (1991). The results obtained from
this analysis indicate that PSRs have a schema made up of eight schematic structures
called "moves". Each move fulfils a particular purpose and contains the grammatical
features typical to it. In this work, a grammatical feature refers to the most frequent
grammatical aspect occurring in a concrete move. The occurrence as well as the
function of each grammatical feature is always associated with the purpose of a concrete
move and sometimes also with the lexical signals of a particular move.
