Rhetorical Structures of Introductions in Soft and Hard Science International Journals Written by Indonesian Scholars

Abstract

<em>This study investigates the similarities and disparities of the rhetorical organizations of introduction sections in soft and hard science international journals written by Indonesian scholars and of the linguistic features employed to signal the moves. A corpus of ten introductions in the field of soft and hard science (five introductions each) was analyzed based on </em><em>Swales' (2004)</em><em> Create A Research Space (CARS) model. Findings were obtained through analyzing the moves and steps, as well as the linguistic realizations of the introductions. The analysis reveals that while Step 1 of Move 3 was an obligatory step, Step 1B of Move 2 and Step 2 of Move 3 were absent in both corpora. In addition, Step 1 of Move 2 was obligatory in soft science but was conventional in soft science corpus. Regarding linguistic features, the results show the influence of the different disciplines on the manifestation of metadiscoursal units (hedges and boosters) to enact the moves across the corpora, whereas no significant discrepancy was identified in the use of verb tense and sentence voice. The findings provide a better understanding of the rhetorical structure of research article introductions for and has pedagogical implications for the writing courses of Indonesian novice scholars.</em>

A Comparative Move Analysis of Low and High-Impact Social Science Scopus Journal Articles Written by Reputable Indonesian Authors

“…The results of the article strengthen Maswana's (2015) genre analysis approach of demonstrating rhetorical organization in the social humanities field. Besides, this article also completes some previous studies of rhetorical move analysis in the abstracts (Fauzan et al, 2020;Kaya & Yağız, 2020;Kurniawan, et al, 2019); introductions (Kanoksilapatham, 2007;Lu, Yoon, & Kisselev, 2021;Luthfianda et al, 2021;Nabilla et al, 2021); literature reviews (Rabie & Boraie, 2021;Soler-Monreal, 2015); methods (Bruce, 2008;Musa et al, 2015); findings and discussions (Lubis, 2019;Suherdi et al, 2020). Moreover, this study might serve as a guide for researchers in Indonesia who are striving to produce more visible and impactful research articles.…”

“…There have been numerous previous studies that have analyzed the rhetorical structure of research articles, starting from abstract discourse patterns (Fauzan et al, 2020;Kaya & Yağız, 2020;Kurniawan, et al, 2019); introductions (Kanoksilapatham, 2007;Lu et al, 2021;Luthfianda et al, 2021;Nabilla et al, 2021); literature reviews (Rabie & Boraie, 2021;Soler-Monreal, 2015); methods (Bruce, 2008;Musa, Khamis, & Zanariah, 2015); findings and discussions (Lubis, 2019;Suherdi et al, 2020). There has been numerous research on move analysis conducted, but there has not been much study on motion analysis from the abstract to the conclusion part.…”

A Genre Analysis of Science and Technology Scopus-Indexed Journal Articles: Does Impact Factor Project Different Rhetorical Moves?

“…Several previous studies have investigated the rhetorical organization of abstract discourse patterns (Amnuai, 2019;Doró, 2013;Fauzan, Lubis, & Kurniawan, 2020;Kaya & Yağız, 2020;Kurniawan, Lubis, Suherdi, & Danuwijaya, 2019); introductions (Hirano, 2009;Kanoksilapatham, 2007;Lu, Yoon, & Kisselev, 2021;Luthfianda, Kurniawan, & Gunawan, 2021); literature review (Rabie & Boraie, 2021); method (Bruce, 2008;Cotos, Huffman, & Link, 2017;Musa, Khamis, & Zanariah, 2015); findings and discussion (Lubis, 2019;Ruiying & Allison, 2003;Suherdi et al, 2020); conclusion (Alkamillah, Azwandi, & Maisarah, 2022;Zamani & Ebadi, 2016). There are also several studies that have thoroughly investigated all parts of the research articles, such as Kanoksilapatham (2005), who examined 60 biochemistry research articles.…”

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“…There are numerous previous studies that conducted rhetorical organization of abstract discourse patterns (Amnuai, 2019;Doro, 2013;Fauzan, Lubis, & Kurniawan, 2020;Kaya & Yagiz, 2020;Kurniawan, Lubis, Suherdi, & Danuwijaya, 2019); introduction (Hirano, 2009;Lu, Yoon, & Kisselev, 2021;Luthfianda, Kurniawan, & Gunawan, 2021); literature review (Rabie & Boraie, 2021); method (Bruce, 2008;Musa, Khamis, & Zanariah, 2015); findings and discussion (Lubis, 2019;Suherdi et al, 2020); conclusion (Cheng, 2019). There are also several studies that have thoroughly examined all parts of the RAs (Kanoksilapatham, 2005;Maswana, Kanamaru, & Tajino, 2015;Ye, 2019).…”