RHETORICAL MOVES OF RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSTRACT IN LINGUISTIC AND LANGUAGE JOURNALS WITH DIFFERENT QUARTILE VALUE

Writing an abstract in a research article is very important. The existence of abstract is
compulsory within a research article. It is a research summary that must be attached
and presented with the article. This study aims to find out moves and the most common
pattern in RA abstracts in linguistic and language journals with different quartiles
value. By using descriptive qualitative method, eighty RA abstract of linguistic and
language journals with different quartile value were extracted from eight journals. The
instrument in this study was checklist instrument. The result finding; 1) Move 2
(Aim/Purpose) exists in seventy RA abstracts, Move 3 (Method) is present in sixty two
RA abstracts, and Move 4 (Finding/Result) appears in Seventy Eight RA abstracts. In
contrast, Move 1 (Introduction) is found in only 50 RA abstracts, and Move 5
(Conclusion) appears in 31 RA abstracts. 2) Q1 journal have the most frequent move,
indicating a more comprehensive and detailed structure in their abstracts. In contrast,
journals in lower quartiles, such as Q3 and Q4, often feature abstracts with fewer
moves. As this study focuses only on the rhetorical move and pattern of RA abstract in
field of linguistic and language journal with different quartile value, future research
should conduct a comparative study and language features of the RA abstract in the
field of across discipline with different quartile value.
Keywords: Abstract, Linguistic and Language Journal, Rhetorical Move