An Analysis of Rhetorical Moves in Introduction Sections of English Department Students’ Research Articles

Ramadhanty, Nadya and Safnil, Safnil (2020) An Analysis of Rhetorical Moves in Introduction Sections of English Department Students’ Research Articles. Undergraduated thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

This research is aimed at describing the introduction sections of Research Articles (RAs) published in JEET viewed from Rhetorical Persepectives. It examined whether introduction section of RAs in Journal of English Education and Teaching (JEET) have essential moves and steps according to CARS Model by John Swales (2004). Thirty Research Article introductions were chosen using systematic random sampling to ensure a fairly equal representation of the variables for the study. The results show that the most dominant move is Move 1 (Establishing A Territory); meanwhile, the most dominant step is Step 2 of Move 1 (Making Topic Generalization). The majority of RA Introductions belong to Semi-Complete Pattern containing only two moves in it. It can be concluded that the authors of articles published in JEET are not aware of the importance of rhetorical moves in the introduction section. It can ve concluded that their article introductions are different from CARS Model as suggested by Swales (2004). Key words: research article introduction, rhetorical moves, english department, journal of english education and teaching.

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