Move Analysis of the English Bachelor Thesis Abstracts Written by Indonesians

Abstract

Due to the global era, bachelorthesis abstracts written by non-native English speakers (Indonesians) from non-English departments in Indonesia are usually written in two languages, i.e. Indonesian and English. The English bachelorthesis abstracts are mostly the translated ones from Indonesian and do not always follow the features of abstract genre. This study aims at examining the rhetorical moves of English bachelorthesis abstracts written by students from non-English departments. The data consisted of twenty abstracts selected randomly from hard and social science departments of Universitas Muria Kudus. The analysis employed Hyland's fiverhetorical move model. The study reveals thatmost English bachelor thesis abstracts did not follow the five rhetorical moves. The absence of some rhetorical moves in the English bachelor thesis abstracts may lead to the communicative purposes not achieved and thus might cause difficulty for readers to understand the study.

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“…This study also aims to compare and identify commonalities and differences between abstracts written in English and Indonesian. This study used Hyland's (2000) five-move analysis model as the main instrument because it has been predominately used in many research studies that focus on the manifestation of discourse patterns (Amnuai, 2019a(Amnuai, , 2019bKurniawan et al, 2019;Suryani & Rismiyanto, 2019). Using this model, the findings from this study are expected to produce a clearer picture of (1) the development of abstract writing skills from postgraduate to doctoral dissertation levels along with the factors that influence it, and (2) differences in the manifestation of abstract discourse patterns at each level and language.…”

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“…Because abstract is important, a number of studies on this topic have been conducted. The recent studies that focused on comparing abstract across discipline (Darabad, 2016;Suryani & Rismiyanto, 2019) and abstract with different language (Amnuai, 2019;Kaya & Yağiz, 2020). Based on the recent studies, comparative studies of abstracts is the current trend of studies on rhetorical structure (Kaya & Yağiz, 2020).…”

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