Arguments by the Contributors of Research Journal Publication

Abstract

Arguments in academic writing are the most important things. The arguments asserted by the contributors of research journal publication are assumed to be more specific especially before the articles are edited and published. So far, arguments have been used to distinguish the value of the academic writing especially in the conclusion section. This study attempts to reveal how the arguments in academic writing written by the contributors of research journals are expressed. This research employs qualitative methods, in which the subjects are the documents: research articles (RAs) submitted by the contributors of research journal before they were edited and published. The data were collected from the articles submitted to the accredited research journal. There were 15 RAs selected purposively and then analyzed using the three types of modality showing: low commitment, medium commitment, and high commitment. A triangulator as another investigator was also employed for peer debriefing to get trustworthiness. From this analysis, the uniqueness and styles of expressing the arguments in the conclusion sections were explored and described. It was found that most of the contributors or authors use low level of commitments for arguing in their conclusion sections. Keywords - low commitment, medium commitments, and high commitments, modality, RAs.

Synthesis and Novelty for Developing the Framework in Academic Writing

“…Therefore, any author should be knowledgeable with coherence, cohesion, synthesis, novelty, and how to build the framework based on the references he has already cited (Ahmed, 2010;Irvin, 2010;and Alotaibi, 2015) that in academic writing, coherence and cohesiveness are important. Besides that, having all the sentences coherent and cohesive in the text, the authors can grasp the ideas and then interpret and evaluate for synthesizing (Moore, 2018;Mahoney et al 2019;Djuwari, 2012;McCombes, 2020). By doing this all the time when writing, the authors can create novelty (Davis, 2011;McCombes, 2020;Trapido, 2015;and Shibayama& Wang, 2020).…”

“…The final essay must generally be thesis-driven (Mahoney et al, 2019). It means that combining the sentences in a meaningful way (Djuwari, 2012). All sentences should be interrelated and must be created to become a new idea that is the author's own idea based on the combination of different sentences or ideas.…”

“…However, he has to edit and revise to get the refined idea. Editing and revising based on the concept of coherence and cohesiveness (Ahmaed, 2010;Alotaibi, 2015;Moore, 2018;Mahoney et al, 2019;Djuwari, 2012;McComber, 2020, andTrapedo, 2015) suggest that the synthesis can be done by editing and reviewing based on the ideas and then using cohesiveness concepts. The process is as to the following.…”

The Characteristics of Cohesion in Malin Kundang Narrative Text

“…By looking at the patterns of language in discourse, one can identify the invisible convention existing in society about how to communicate properly. Discourse represents the manner of using language among society to exchange information in daily life and also for argument (Djuwari, 2012). By looking at the patterns of language in discourse, one can identify the invisible convention existing in society about how to communicate and argue properly.…”