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s in research articles are important for readers in determining whether to continue reading the article or not. A plethora of studies involving abstracts’ rhetorical moves has previously been published, but scant attention has been given to the relationship between the rhetorical moves and authors’ nationalities. This study is aimed at comparing th...
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... the similarities in terms of the moves' salience, there was also a striking difference between the two data groups. As the data in table 3 suggests, the salience in Move 5 (Conclusion) was notably different in the two groups. In abstracts written by international authors, with 73% of salience rate, Move 5 (Conclusion) was classified as conventional in salience as did the other moves. ...Context 2
... the similarities in terms of the moves' salience, there was also a striking difference between the two data groups. As the data in table 3 suggests, the salience in Move 5 (Conclusion) was notably different in the two groups. In abstracts written by international authors, with 73% of salience rate, Move 5 (Conclusion) was classified as conventional in salience as did the other moves. ...Similar publications
The current study aims to identify the analysis of the questions of the book of clear rhetoric for the preparatory reading stage according to Bloom's classification and skills of basic science processes, and to answer the following questions: 1-What are the levels of learning measured by the questions of the book of clear rhetoric for its three sec...
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... His Create-A-Research-Space (CARS) model has been extensively used in various studies, particularly for introduction section (Afrizon et al., 2018;Indrian & Ardi, 2019;Lu et al., 2021). Several previous studies have examined the rhetorical organization of abstract discourse patterns (Amnuai, 2019;Kurniawan et al., 2019;Nurcik et al., 2022); introduction (Lu et al., 2021;Luthfianda et al., 2021;Ebadi et al., 2019); literature review (Rabie & Boraie, 2021); method (Cotos et al., 2017;Chuang & Chen, 2021); findings and discussion (Lubis, 2019;Suherdi et al., 2020); conclusion (Alkamillah et al., 2022). There are also several studies that have thoroughly examined all parts of the RAs (Maswana et al., 2015;Ye, 2019). ...
... They found the move "P-M-Pr" pattern was the most frequently used. Similar findings were also found in Nurcik et al. (2022) and Kurniawan et al. (2019) studies, which discovered that Move a, Step 2, 3, and 4 were the most frequent moves to occur in the abstract section. Moreover, the most unique pattern of moves was found in some of the hard science RAs. ...
Publishing scientific papers, particularly research articles (RAs), has become a requirement and essential component for academics’ life. As a result, there is a growing need for academics to produce research articles for international publications. However, many writers, especially novice and inexperienced ones, still struggle to achieve this goal because they fail to adhere to the accepted conventions. This study attempts to look into the rhetorical moves in full-length English RAs written by reputable Indonesian lecturers from the hard and soft sciences disciplines in the early stage of their careers. This study employed a modified framework of analysis proposed by Maswana et al. in 2015. The findings showed that, in general, the papers’ rhetorical structures from abstract to conclusion were quite comparable, reflecting the universal writing rules of a research paper. However, the striking difference lies in the method section, specifically the absence of Move 5 in all soft sciences articles. This may be due to disciplinary conventions. The findings of the study may offer insightful instructional material that can assist students or researchers in honing their academic writing abilities.Keywords: early-career; full-length English RAs; hard sciences; move analysis; rhetorical structure; soft sciences.
... Bhatti et al., 2019;Gani et al., 2021;Huang, 2018;Omidian et al., 2018;Qurratu'aini, 2022), or national and/or international authors (e.g. Arsyad et al., 2020;Nurcik et al., 2022). From the perspective of linguistic features, Tseng (2011) only focused on verb tenses and found that present and past tenses dominantly appeared in applied linguistics journals. ...
... Meanwhile, some other previous studies identified grammatical subjects and/or voice (e.g. Nurcik et al., 2022;Pho, 2008;Kafes, 2015) in analyzing linguistic features of RAAs. Pho emphasized that grammatical subjects contributed more in distinguishing moves, Nurcik et al. (2022) claimed that the voice from all data was apparently similar, whereas Kafes referred to Pho's findings yet with few discussions of grammatical subjects. ...
... Nurcik et al., 2022;Pho, 2008;Kafes, 2015) in analyzing linguistic features of RAAs. Pho emphasized that grammatical subjects contributed more in distinguishing moves, Nurcik et al. (2022) claimed that the voice from all data was apparently similar, whereas Kafes referred to Pho's findings yet with few discussions of grammatical subjects. ...
is the selling point of a research article (RA), due to the fact that it can help the readers and particularly journal reviewers in selecting which RAs are remarkable to be read further and accepted. A plethora of research has analyzed the rhetorical moves and linguistic features of accepted RAAs. Nevertheless, almost none of them have explored the rejected one, based on the authors’ affiliation. Invoking Hyland’s (2000) rhetorical move model as the main instrument, this study intends to dismantle and fill up those lacunas by utilizing 31 rejected RAAs in total from Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics (IJAL), submitted in 2019, 2020, and 2021. The data were then separated into the same affiliation (13 abstracts) and different affiliation (18 abstracts) groups in order to find the commonality and discrepancy in the rhetorical move and linguistic features (i.e. tenses, voice, and grammatical subjects). As a result, the authors’ affiliation had some influences on the structure of rhetorical moves of RAAs and the accommodation of linguistic features in each move. It also appeared that there were some primary shortcomings found in the rejected abstracts as compared to the accepted ones. This study can be adopted as the reference for future research in rhetorical moves analysis, specifically regarding the authors’ affiliation and rejected RAAs.
Academic work is usually evaluated by the quality of its abstract which serves as a concise summary of the research findings. Therefore, the study aims to investigate the rhetorical structure of Move1 in the abstracts of post-graduate dissertations from both Hard Science and Soft Science disciplines. The paper intends to answer three main questions: how is Move1 manifested in terms of its text length? What are the most frequently used Sub-Move patterns of Move1? What are the most common lexical collocations used in Move1? To answer these questions, the study uses Santos’ (1996) framework to analyze a corpus of 100 abstracts selected randomly, 50 from Hard Science and 50 from Soft Science. The findings have revealed that Move1 in Soft Science might use more sentences than those in Hard Science. The findings have also shown that both disciplines rely on Sub-Move-A, stating current knowledge, and Sub-Move2, stating the research gap, as essential for communicating their ideas while the other Sub-Moves were rarely used. In terms of lexical collocations, while post-graduates in both disciplines frequently used the Adjective+Noun lexical collocation as their preferred structure to construct M1, the use of the other lexical collocations varied in both disciplines. The study concluded that Move1 is considered obligatory in situating the research, establishing its context, and capturing and communicating findings. Besides the pedagogical implications suggested, the study’s findings hopefully contribute to the development of abstract move-schema theory, enhance scholarly understanding of Move1 characteristics, and guide future research in the field.
Academic work is usually evaluated by the quality of its abstract which serves as a concise summary of the research findings. Therefore, the study aims to investigate the rhetorical structure of Move1 in the abstracts of post-graduate dissertations from both Hard Science and Soft Science disciplines. The paper intends to answer three main questions: how is Move1 manifested in terms of its text length? What are the most frequently used Sub-Move patterns of Move1? What are the most common lexical collocations used in Move1? To answer these questions, the study uses Santos’ (1996) framework to analyze a corpus of 100 abstracts selected randomly, 50 from Hard Science and 50 from Soft Science. The findings have revealed that Move1 in Soft Science might use more sentences than those in Hard Science. The findings have also shown that both disciplines rely on Sub-Move-A, stating current knowledge, and Sub-Move2, stating the research gap, as essential for communicating their ideas while the other Sub-Moves were rarely used. In terms of lexical collocations, while post-graduates in both disciplines frequently used the Adjective+Noun lexical collocation as their preferred structure to construct M1, the use of the other lexical collocations varied in both disciplines. The study concluded that Move1 is considered obligatory in situating the research, establishing its context, and capturing and communicating findings. Besides the pedagogical implications suggested, the study’s findings hopefully contribute to the development of abstract move-schema theory, enhance scholarly understanding of Move1 characteristics, and guide future research in the field.
