The readers' first impression of the articles' overall contents relies on what is presented and how they are presented in the abstract. Previous studies have quite extensively looked at the rhetorical structure of abstract, specifically comparing abstracts of different fields of study, languages, and authors' background. However, inquiries that especially examine the extent to which the authors' organizational affiliations may reflect the rhetorical organization and linguistic features of their research articles' abstracts have escaped attention. This study aims to compare the rhetorical moves and linguistic features of research article abstracts by authors with different organizational affiliations. The abstracts represented in this study were all published in Indonesian Journal of Science and Technology (IJoST) and were Scopusindexed. A total of six abstracts were chosen to be analyzed in which the authors of three abstracts were affiliated with Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) while the other three were affiliated with other universities. Hyland's (2000) model was employed to analyze the rhetorical organization of the abstracts. The findings revealed that the rhetorical move with the highest number of occurrences is Move 1 -Introduction, and the move with the least number of occurrences is Move 5 -Conclusion. Furthermore, the use of present tense and active voice was dominant in all six abstracts. The final results and findings of this study is expected to carve an in-depth insight for related future studies within this scope of analysis and is meant to act as a guideline for novice academic writers in constructing RA abstracts.
An abstract is the selling point of a research article (RA), due to the fact that it can help the readers and particularly journal reviewers in selecting which RAs are remarkable to be read further and accepted. A plethora of research has analyzed the rhetorical moves and linguistic features of accepted RAAs. Nevertheless, almost none of them have explored the rejected one, based on the authors’ affiliation. Invoking Hyland’s (2000) rhetorical move model as the main instrument, this study intends to dismantle and fill up those lacunas by utilizing 31 rejected RAAs in total from Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics (IJAL), submitted in 2019, 2020, and 2021. The data were then separated into the same affiliation (13 abstracts) and different affiliation (18 abstracts) groups in order to find the commonality and discrepancy in the rhetorical move and linguistic features (i.e. tenses, voice, and grammatical subjects). As a result, the authors’ affiliation had some influences on the structure of rhetorical moves of RAAs and the accommodation of linguistic features in each move. It also appeared that there were some primary shortcomings found in the rejected abstracts as compared to the accepted ones. This study can be adopted as the reference for future research in rhetorical moves analysis, specifically regarding the authors’ affiliation and rejected RAAs.
A well-written abstract is considered as the reflection of a qualified journal article which can be read by academic readers. It also serves as a determining point whether the reader decides to continue reading the text. Some of the previous studies examined abstracts based on the background of the writers as an expert-novice and a native-non-native. Meanwhile, this study presents research in progress on rhetorical moves of accepted research article (RA) abstracts, influenced by the different forms of collaboration which may have different realizations of abstract rhetorical patterns and linguistic features, i.e., voice and tense. Six abstracts of Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics (IJAL) articles published in 2020 and 2021 were selected. The selected abstracts are compared based on Hyland's (2000) theory of rhetorical move analysis. The data are taken from those written by lecturers of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) and those by UPI's lecturers and other Indonesian universities' lecturers. The results of this study revealed differences in rhetorical moves and steps. On the other hand, the linguistics features in selected abstracts showed similarities in terms of tense and voice. Implications of the present research findings to English for academic writing courses and journal writing workshops will be discussed.
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