A Move Analysis of Research Article Introduction Written by Indonesian Authors: The Case of Soft and Hard Sciences
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.020How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Comparison, discipline, introduction, research article, rhetorical moves
- Abstract
In scholarly international publication, the introduction is often seen by journal reviewers as the pivotal place to assess the contribution of the research. Therefore, genre analyses of research article introduction keep being concerned by many researchers of English for academic purposes to generate eligible models of writing introduction section. However, much is still less explored regarding the way NNES authors rhetorically organize the introduction across disciplines. This study seeks to compare rhetorical moves and steps of introduction between soft and hard science research articles. Eight research articles were collected from Indonesian authors. Swales’ (2004) revised model of Creating A Research Space was used in the top-down stage. The linguistic features of the moves were further scrutinized in the bottom-up stage. The findings showed that all introductions conformed to the model, exemplifying the three moves: Establishing a territory, establishing a niche, and presenting the present work; regardless of the discipline. In the step level, the introductions from the hard-science disciplines exhibited the statement of research questions or hypotheses and definitional clarifications while presenting their works more than those from the soft-science disciplines. Regarding the linguistic realizations, while the tense use was more conformed, passive form was more evident in the hard science introductions. This study reaches a conclusion that discipline considerably influences the priority in conveying the information within the research article introduction along with the linguistic realizations. Recommendations for the teaching of English for research publication purposes are also presented.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Dian Setiawati AU - Siti Nurzihan Nabilla AU - Didi Suherdi AU - Eri Kurniawan AU - Wawan Gunawan AU - Arif Husein Lubis PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/28 TI - A Move Analysis of Research Article Introduction Written by Indonesian Authors: The Case of Soft and Hard Sciences BT - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 127 EP - 132 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.020 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.020 ID - Setiawati2021 ER -