A Comparison of Rhetorical Moves in Students’ Undergraduate Thesis Abstracts
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.070How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Disciplinary variation, move analysis, rhetorical move, undergraduate thesis abstract
- Abstract
Research on rhetorical move in abstracts has received attention in recent years. Different disciplines employ different strategies in manifesting rhetorical move in their writing. However, cross-disciplinary studies on rhetorical move in abstract still need to be done to examine the similarities and differences of the realization of rhetorical moves between different disciplines. This study aims to identify the manifestation of rhetorical move used in the undergraduate thesis abstracts written by Natural Science and Social Science students in a university in Bandung, Indonesia. A total of 120 abstracts were taken from six disciplines (20 abstracts each) i.e. Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Geography, Sociology, and History. Hyland’s (2004) model was used as the guideline for the analysis and the AntMover software was used to assist the analysis. The result showed that Natural Science and Social Science employed different strategies in realizing the moves. Introduction, Methodology, and Findings were the most manifested move in Natural Science, while Introduction, Purpose, Methodology, and Findings were the most manifested move in Social Science. The findings also showed that both Natural Science and Social Science employ different strategies in realizing some steps in a certain move. In conclusion, the nature of the disciplines does affect the manifestation of rhetorical moves in undergraduate thesis abstracts. This study provides an insight into the trend of rhetorical move patterns in both Natural Science and Social Science undergraduate thesis. Some recommendations have been provided as an insight concerning the trend of rhetorical move both Natural Science and Social Science undergraduate theses.
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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 - Mochammad Rizki Juanda AU - Eri Kurniawan PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/17 TI - A Comparison of Rhetorical Moves in Students’ Undergraduate Thesis Abstracts BT - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 443 EP - 448 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.070 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.070 ID - Juanda2020 ER -