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

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.