A Move-marker List: A Study of Rhetorical Move-lexis Linguistic Realizations of Research Article Abstracts in Social and Behavioural Sciences

Khany, Reza; Malmir, Bahareh

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“…A recent study by Khany and Malmir (2019) revealed that there are disciplinary tense variations found in the moves of RA abstracts. For example, in a past study conducted by Tankó (2017), simple present and present perfect tense were used in stating the research gap of literary RA abstracts.…”

Section: Linguistic Realization Of Ra Abstractsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, in a past study conducted by Tankó (2017), simple present and present perfect tense were used in stating the research gap of literary RA abstracts. Meanwhile, Khany and Malmir's (2019) findings showed that simple present passive and present perfect passive were usually used in stating the gap in social sciences RA abstracts.…”

Section: Linguistic Realization Of Ra Abstractsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In particular, move-based analysis of RA abstracts has been extensively analyzed (e.g., Kaya & Yağiz, 2020;Rashidi & Meihami, 2018;Al-Khasawneh, 2017;Pho, 2008). Several past researches have also included linguistic realizations such as tense and voice, as they provide extensive insights into expressions commonly associated with the rhetorical moves of the abstracts (e.g., Gani et al, 2020;Khany & Malmir, 2019;Amnuai, 2019;Tankó, 2017;Wahyu, 2016). Essentially, there have been many approaches to the study of RA abstracts.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Rhetorical Move and Linguistic Features Comparative Analysis of Research Article Abstracts by Authors of Different Organizational Backgrounds

Kanafani¹,

Nurcik²,

Harisbaya³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021)

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The readers' first impression of the articles' overall contents relies on what is presented and how they are presented in the abstract. Previous studies have quite extensively looked at the rhetorical structure of abstract, specifically comparing abstracts of different fields of study, languages, and authors' background. However, inquiries that especially examine the extent to which the authors' organizational affiliations may reflect the rhetorical organization and linguistic features of their research articles' abstracts have escaped attention. This study aims to compare the rhetorical moves and linguistic features of research article abstracts by authors with different organizational affiliations. The abstracts represented in this study were all published in Indonesian Journal of Science and Technology (IJoST) and were Scopusindexed. A total of six abstracts were chosen to be analyzed in which the authors of three abstracts were affiliated with Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) while the other three were affiliated with other universities. Hyland's (2000) model was employed to analyze the rhetorical organization of the abstracts. The findings revealed that the rhetorical move with the highest number of occurrences is Move 1 -Introduction, and the move with the least number of occurrences is Move 5 -Conclusion. Furthermore, the use of present tense and active voice was dominant in all six abstracts. The final results and findings of this study is expected to carve an in-depth insight for related future studies within this scope of analysis and is meant to act as a guideline for novice academic writers in constructing RA abstracts.

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Section: Linguistic Realization Of Ra Abstractsmentioning

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Section: Linguistic Realization Of Ra Abstractsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Previous Studies On Ra Abstractsmentioning

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Rhetorical Move and Linguistic Features Comparative Analysis of Research Article Abstracts by Authors of Different Organizational Backgrounds

Kanafani¹,

Nurcik²,

Harisbaya³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021)

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“…In a past study, Khany and Malmir (2019) discovered disciplinary tense variations in the moves of RA abstracts. Tankó (2017), for example, revealed that simple present and present perfect tense are usually employed in presenting the research gap of literary RA abstracts in a previous study.…”

Section: Linguistic Realization Of Ra Abstractsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comparative Study on Rhetorical Moves of IJAL’s Abstracts Written by UPI’s Lecturers and by UPI-Other Indonesian Universities’ Lecturers

Harisbaya¹,

Qurratu’aini²,

Kanafani³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021)

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A well-written abstract is considered as the reflection of a qualified journal article which can be read by academic readers. It also serves as a determining point whether the reader decides to continue reading the text. Some of the previous studies examined abstracts based on the background of the writers as an expert-novice and a native-non-native. Meanwhile, this study presents research in progress on rhetorical moves of accepted research article (RA) abstracts, influenced by the different forms of collaboration which may have different realizations of abstract rhetorical patterns and linguistic features, i.e., voice and tense. Six abstracts of Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics (IJAL) articles published in 2020 and 2021 were selected. The selected abstracts are compared based on Hyland's (2000) theory of rhetorical move analysis. The data are taken from those written by lecturers of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) and those by UPI's lecturers and other Indonesian universities' lecturers. The results of this study revealed differences in rhetorical moves and steps. On the other hand, the linguistics features in selected abstracts showed similarities in terms of tense and voice. Implications of the present research findings to English for academic writing courses and journal writing workshops will be discussed.

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“…The past three decades have witnessed a growing interest in the study of research articles (RAs) from different perspectives. The bulk of the studies has focused on rhetorical move structure (Kanoksilapatham, 2015;Khany & Malmir, 2019;Wannaruk & Amnuai, 2016), lexico-grammatical features (Green, 2019;Staples, & Reppen, 2016;Zhang, 2019), and disciplinary variation (Crossley et al, 2017;Jiang, 2017).…”

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A Corpus-based Analysis of Phrasal Complexity across Different Sections of Research Articles in two Academic Disciplines

Esfandiari¹,

Ahmadi²

2020

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Complexity measures in academic writing have experienced a shift from clausal to phrasal indices in recent years. Drawing on a subset of Biber et al. (2011) hypothesized stages of writing development, we explored phrasal complexity across sections of research articles (RAs) in applied linguistics and clinical medicine. A 389,332-word corpus consisting of 80 randomly selected RAs from leading journals in applied linguistics and clinical medicine was compiled for the purposes of the present study. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and independent-samples t-test, as implemented in SPSS (version 25), were employed to find differences across the RA sections and between two groups of academic writers. The findings indicated that RAs in clinical medicine relied more heavily on noun phrase modifiers in all sections than those in applied linguistics, suggesting that the distributional pattern of these linguistic expressions is discipline-independent. The implications of the findings are also discussed.

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A Move-marker List: A Study of Rhetorical Move-lexis Linguistic Realizations of Research Article Abstracts in Social and Behavioural Sciences

Cited by 13 publications

References 26 publications

Rhetorical Move and Linguistic Features Comparative Analysis of Research Article Abstracts by Authors of Different Organizational Backgrounds

Rhetorical Move and Linguistic Features Comparative Analysis of Research Article Abstracts by Authors of Different Organizational Backgrounds

A Comparative Study on Rhetorical Moves of IJAL’s Abstracts Written by UPI’s Lecturers and by UPI-Other Indonesian Universities’ Lecturers

A Corpus-based Analysis of Phrasal Complexity across Different Sections of Research Articles in two Academic Disciplines

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