Rhetorical Moves in Introduction Sections of Academic Journal Articles (original) (raw)
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2013
The present study explored the rhetorical variations and the relationship within two related genres from two related disciplines. The two related genres were research article abstracts and introductions. The two related disciplines were linguistics and applied linguistics. This chapter provided background of the study, statement of the problem, research objectives and research questions, and significance of the study. The last section listed abbreviations and definition of terms used in the present study. 1.1 Background of the Study Research article is the dominant form of professional paper whose communicative purpose is mainly to share new findings with other members of the authors' discourse community. Writing a paper that is acceptable for publication in a scholarly journal is a challenge to novice writers, especially for non-native speakers. They have to follow a particular pattern of organization accepted by members of that professional community. Understanding the pattern of organization of research articles in such a profession is essential. For the textual overview of the research article, Bruce (1983) suggested that the predominant Introduction-Method-Results-Discussion format follows the logical cycle of an inductive inquiry. Research article abstracts and introductions are at the beginning of an article. They are the first parts of an article to be read by readers. Salager-Meyer (1992) stated Table 2.1 The Comparisons of ESP, New Rhetoric and Australian Genre Studies Schools ESP Genre Analysis New Rhetoric Studies Australian Genre Studies Defining Criteria Communicative purpose Recurrent social actions Goal-oriented purposeful activity Social context of use Discourse community Community ownership Context of culture Perspectives on text Genre shapes the schematic structure of the discourse and constraints the choice of context and style Genre knowledge includes both form and content and a sense of what is appropriate to a particular purpose at a particular point of time Genre is concerned with systems of social processes: the ways in which field, mode, and tenor are phrased into each other; these variables converge on texture. Medium of analysis Texts Users and context Text Unit of analysis Move and step-Stage Research methods Analysis of text Case studies, interview, observation, protocols Analysis of text Genre studies RAs in various disciplines, dissertations, business, dissertations, business, communications, legal cases, etc. BJCP BJHP BJEP LCP Experimental articles Review articles Experimental articles Review articles Experimental articles Review articles Experimental articles Review articles Objectives Design Methods Results Conclusions Purpose Methods Results Conclusions Objectives Design Methods Results Conclusions Purpose Methods Results Conclusions Background Aims Sample Method Results Conclusions Comment (optional)
Rhetorical Structure of Introduction in Applied Linguistics Research Articles
RA (Research Article) is considered to be the main channel of knowledge production. However, for student writers and novice scholars writing, RA is a challenging task. It is partly because of lack of exposure to and awareness of the rhetorical structure of RAs (Research Articles) in the intended discipline. The objective of this study is to identify the rhetorical moves of RAs in applied linguistics and explaining their communicative functions that can be used for pedagogic purposes for novice scholars in this discipline. Analyses of moves and their constituent steps together with their frequency count would help suggest obligatory and optional moves in the Introduction section. Also analysis of move structural patterns, which would enable to draw possible move sequencing is within the purview of this study. A corpus of 20 empirical RAs of leading and representative 4 journals in applied linguistics have been analyzed following J.M. Swales (1990 and 2004) move analysis of Introduction sections of empirical RAs. Results were obtained through software coding of moves of these 20 RAs, and through qualitative analysis of communicative functions of moves and steps. From the frequency count of moves and steps, it is found that some moves and their constituent steps are obligatory, while others are optional. Findings show they both conform to and depart from J.M. Swales' CARS (Create-a-Research-Space) model in 1990 and 2004. The findings of the study will facilitate better understanding of RAs in applied linguistics for novice scholars and contribute to these scholars' efforts to publish their research in this field.
Rhetorical Moves in Introduction Section of Literary Journal Articles
International Journal of Education and Social Science Research, 2020
There has been a growing interest in the rhetorical move structure of research articles. Research studies across disciplines have been done to investigate similarity or dissimilarity in the research article introduction due to its crucial role. This study aims at finding the rhetorical moves as well as the sequencing pattern of literary journal articles from different accredited indexing. This study was done using qualitative method with document analysis technique. 22 literary journal articles from Sinta 1-6 indexed journal were taken as the source of data. The findings of the study revealed majority of the articles contain all of the moves suggested by Swale. However, some of the moves were also missing from several articles especially 2nd and 3rd moves. The sequencing of points elaborated from those moves also varied from each article. Moreover, the standardized level of indexing in a journal does not determine the quality of the research paper's introduction. This is because there is no uniformity in the world of rhetorical patterns in writing since each writer or author has their own style.
Rhetorical Moves in Research Article Introductions of Students of Linguistics Master Program
e-Journal of Linguistics, 2020
This research investigated the rhetorical moves in the introduction part to the research article written by graduate students in Linguistics master's study programs. The primary purpose of this research is to describe the pattern of rhetorical moves in the research article introductions in the field of Linguistics. The data collection technique was in the form of scientific article documentation consisting of seven research article introductions in English in the field of Linguistics. Researchers collected data in the form of text with document analysis and note-taking techniques. These research articles were taken from four different journal publishers in Indonesia, namely Alphabet, Kelasa, Batra, and Suar Betang. The rhetorical analysis in this study involves the concept of the Project Justifying Model (PJM) proposed by Safnil (2010), which consists of four communicative moves that can describe the rhetorical moves of Indonesian writers. The validity of the data in this rhetor...
Research article introductions and literature reviews in applied linguistics: A genre-based study
2021
Following Swales' (1981, 1990) pioneering work on the move structure of research article introductions, the Create-a-Research-Space (CARS) model, a host of genre studies were carried out on different parts of the research article. However, research on the literature review sections in the studies organized in the introduction, literature review, method, result and discussion format remains extremely limited. Even lesser has been done to examine whether the literature review and the introduction as separate sections belong to the same genre. Thus, this study aimed at comparatively investigating research article introductions and literature reviews in the field of applied linguistics, adopting Swales' (2004) CARS model as the point of departure, to reveal how these two sections, when stranded, are different or alike in terms of the utilized rhetorical moves. The data comprised 30 articles, drawn from the most recent issues of 5 International Scientific Indexing journal...
Journal of Applied Languages and Linguistics, 2018
The abstract is an important part of any research articles. In recent years, many pedagogical approaches have realized that lack of proper writing support in writing research article abstract can frustrate the writers and make their research paper less-effective. The present study present rhetorical move analysis of the research article abstracts by employing Hyland's 2010 model of move analysis. The data was collected from the two volumes of the National University of Modern Languages' Journal of Critical Inquiry. The results show that the purpose move is the most frequent move, while the conclusion move is the most lest frequent in the abstract published in the Journal of Critical Inquiry. The present study suggests that the researchers use the purpose move in their abstracts with the highest frequency and are less inclined to use conclusion move.
This research aims at analysing journal articles to find out how rhetorical moves proceed. Such an analysis is beneficial in teaching academic writing for undergraduate students. Eight articles written by native Indonesian and native English writers published in the international journals indexed by Scopus and national journals accredited by Directorate General of Higher Education (DIKTI)were taken as source of data. To analyse the data theoretical framework proposed by Swales was used for introduction section of the articles and Yang & Allison framework for discussion section. The research reveals the following results: (1) Native English writers and Native Indonesian writers recognize and apply the generic structure of English research articles with regard to Swales's and Yang & Alison's frameworks of rethorical moves. (2) Breadth of application varies for each writer writing the articles in the two journals. These findings implicate that rethorical moves should be included as material of instruction to teach academic writing for students of undegraduate programs. INTRODUCTION Rhetorical move is technique of using language effectively and persuasively. It is a skill of discourse which employs various ways to convince and influence an audience. Suryani, et al (2014: 30) defines a rhetorical move is as the ability and study on the use of language with persuasive effect, a more contemporary definition for rhetorical refers to skills on understanding the audience roles in shaping communication, identifying and responding to the audience in terms of writing situation. Therefore, rhetorical move it functions as a tool for writers which empower them to convince their readers about their points of view. Furthermore, rhetorical move it shows the writer's ability to process words in the language and rhetorical intent to achieve some purposes of the terms expressed using such words. The study of moves analysis was originally developed by John M. Swales (1981, 1990, and 2004) to functionally describe a part or section of Research Articles. This approach, which seeks to operate a text into particular parts, originated from the educational objectives of supporting the teaching of academic writing and reading for non-native speakers of English. Move is understood as a practical part of texts to achieve a communicative purpose or seeking attainment of a defined goal (Brett: 322) adds move is a realization of a specific overall communicative purpose through a variety of linguistic strategies, while Brett (1994) simply defines move as a communicative category. At the same time, students also learn how to access, select and evaluate information from different sources and to formulate ideas (Anderson and Poole, 2001:4). In other words, academic writing is arguably the most important language skill to English tertiary students whose grades are largely determined by their performance in written assignments, academic reports, term examinations and graduation theses (Nga, 2009:112). As result, rhetorical move is the ability of processing language effectively in order to make the readers easily understand and direct what the message in our writing by moving the storyline through the complex to the climax.
JOALL (Journal of Applied Lingustics and Literature), 2018
The abstract has become the first part that will be read by readers in a research article. Some important aspects in the abstract are move structure and linguistic features. This study examines the rhetorical moves and linguistic features of English research article abstract written by three groups of authors in Applied Linguistics. The research design was mixed method design combining quantitative and qualitative method with the corpus of this study consisted of 60 abstracts by postgraduate students, national and international authors found in RA abstracts. The results show that the common moves by three groups of authors have only three moves (i.e purpose, method, and results). The common linguistic features used by three groups of authors are active voice, present tense, and simple sentence. By comparing the three groups of abstracts the differences are found in the postgraduate students authors. They were used move 1 (Background/ introduction/ situation) fewer than national and international authors. Furthur the postgraduate students used past tense more dominant than present tense and using hedges is more frequently than national and international authors. This study concludes that in writing RA abstracts a writer should adjust the commonly used rules the abstract especially in using 5 moves in the abstracts. INTRODUCTION An abstract is the first part that will be read in the publication journal, research article, thesis, and so on. The readers can overview the content of a journal by reading an abstract. Submitting an abstract is an important thing even in national or international journal. The objective can be more detail seen by reading the abstract. Abstract is beneficial for the reader to identify the keywords that will make it easier for exploring the research.
The present study aimed to investigate the evolution of the rhetorical structure of research article discussions in three prestigious journals covering the two chronological periods of 1980--1989 (group A) and 2005--2010 (group B). It also studied changes in the application of the two most frequently used verb tenses − the simple present tense and the simple past tense − over the two time periods. Overall, 115 published articles were selected from the aforementioned journals. Move analysis was accomplished through application of Dudley--Evans' (1994) model on the datasets. Findings indicated that despite the overall consistency in utilizing the nine--move organization, there emerged rather considerable differences in the frequency of (Un) expected outcome and Explanation moves. A reduction in the frequency of (Un) expected outcome in group B indicated that present--day writers announce results with more caution to win the acquiescence of reviewers and readers. On the other hand, a rise in explanations revealed a growing concern for including more arguments in order to follow the analytical nature of the discussion section. The results also demonstrated a shift from the simple present tense toward the simple past tense, which marks a shift from generalization to specificity.
Studies in English Language and Education
A plethora of research has shown that genre analysis through move analysis is a practical approach to identify the complexity of writing research articles (RAs). However, little is known about the genre knowledge development that is manifested in abstract discourse patterns. This study aims to determine whether or not there is an influence from the level of education with the development of genre knowledge, especially in the field of writing research abstracts. Using Hyland’s (2000) five-move analysis model, this study analyzed the comparison and identity of abstracts of theses and dissertations in English and Indonesian. From the analysis, it can be seen that there are some differences and similarities in the manifestation of abstract discourse patterns in English and Indonesian final paper abstracts. In terms of genre knowledge, its development could be reflected through the level of study, in this case, from master’s to doctoral degrees. As evident in the dissertation abstracts i...