A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE RHETORICAL STRUCTURE OF RESEARCH ARTICLE CONCLUSION IN HIGH-RANK AND LOW-RANK NATIONAL JOURNALS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS / ENGLISH EDUCATION

This research was aimed at investigating the rhetorical structure on the research
article conclusion in national journals written by national authors. The purpose of
the study was to analyze and identify the moves and steps in conclusion section.
Afterwards, this research used checklist and documentation technique in taking
data. There were 40 national journals taken as sample in this research. The
instrument of this research was text analysis by using checklist of moves and steps
in research articles conclusion of national research articles. Based on the results of
the research, it was found that the move and steps used in High rank journals
could be categorized into Conventional. This had been proven by the result which
showed that from the three moves had been used on writers’ journals, there were
two moves used dominantly, they were Move 1 which got 75% and Move 3 which
got 73%. Meanwhile, it was only Move 2 which was categorized into Optional
because its percentage was only 35%. This meant that most of writers in high rank
journals liked to share their summary of the study and also deduction from the
research in order to give more clear explanation of the results the writers got from
the study they had done before. Meanwhile, the move and steps used in Low rank
journals could be categorized into Optional category. Then, compared with the
results of high rank journal in the case of using Moves in their conclusion part of
the research was more complete than the writers did on the low rank journals.
Keywords: Rhetorical Structure, Research Article, Conclusion, High and Low
Journals.