SYNTACTIC FEATURES OF RESEARCH ARTICLE TITLES PUBLISHED IN REPUTABLE INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS OF DIFFERENT QUARTILE VALUES IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS

Lorenza, Oktazsya Marjelina and Safnil, Safnil and Syahrial, Syahrial (2023) SYNTACTIC FEATURES OF RESEARCH ARTICLE TITLES PUBLISHED IN REPUTABLE INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS OF DIFFERENT QUARTILE VALUES IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS. Masters thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

A title is an essential part of a research article that must consider. The title should be clear, easy to understand to impress the reader. This study aims to find the average length of RA titles, the syntactic features, and the differences in research article titles in applied linguistics published in reputable international journals at different quartile values. The method employed is descriptive qualitative to discover and describe the data. The total number was eighty research article titles taken from eight journals at different quartile values. The first result indicates that the average length of RA titles was 12.3. It may imply that the authors want to address more research focuses in the title to attract readers' attention. The second result indicates that the compound feature became the most dominant syntactic feature typically used in reputable international journals at different quartile values in applied linguistics. Using compound features in writing the research article titles into two sections can make it easier for the readers to find out the keywords of the study. The third result indicates that the higher the quartile value of the journal, the more compound feature used. In contrast, the higher the quartile value of the journal, the lower the nominal feature was used. The findings of this study imply that students should be familiar with the length of words and the syntactic features for writing the titles to construct them for publication. Exciting and informative titles are more likely to be read and accepted for publication. Keywords: syntactic features, research article titles, reputable international journals, quartile value, applied linguistics

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