Giving Suggestion Techniques to Build Communicative Interaction in Academic Articles

Abstract

Writing for publication is to present the research process and result, and build communicative interaction with readers. The writers need to gain the readers' high attention. The objective of this study was to find out the implications and benefits of the techniques of giving suggestion to build communicative interaction in five articles in ELT. The articles were selected through purposive sampling technique. Then, it was analyzed by using classifying technique and involving the Interpersonal meaning concept. The findings show that indirect suggestion is the most effective technique to build the communicative interaction. The writers could suggest readers indirectly to agree with the ideas, hypothesis, method, even the finding and analysis. The benefit of the findings was that the suggestion technique could be a hedge to avoid getting strong and negative impression of claiming truth. It also helped the writers' information become soft and understandable.