Rhetorical move and genre knowledge development of English and Indonesian abstracts: A comparative analysis

Abstract

A plethora of research has shown that genre analysis through move analysis is a practical approach to identify the complexity of writing research articles (RAs). However, little is known about the genre knowledge development that is manifested in abstract discourse patterns. This study aims to determine whether or not there is an influence from the level of education with the development of genre knowledge, especially in the field of writing research abstracts. Using Hyland’s (2000) five-move analysis model, this study analyzed the comparison and identity of abstracts of theses and dissertations in English and Indonesian. From the analysis, it can be seen that there are some differences and similarities in the manifestation of abstract discourse patterns in English and Indonesian final paper abstracts. In terms of genre knowledge, its development could be reflected through the level of study, in this case, from master’s to doctoral degrees. As evident in the dissertation abstracts in both languages, Move 1 (Introduction) evinces richer varieties in step realizations than in master’s theses. The analysis also indicates no crucial differences in genre knowledge development across languages and fields of study. Further comparative research on this particular topic with more subject of data is suggested.

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“…Using Moreno & Swales (2018)'s advocacy for step-level analysis, Yoon & Casal (2020) investigated 625 conference abstracts accepted in 2017 American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference and found that 5 of 7 moves in the resulting framework were highly recurrent and 2 leading move-sequence patterns appeared. Beside rhetorical move, Pratiwi & Kurniawan (2021) also determined the influence of the education level to the development of genre knowledge in research abstracts. They used (Hyland, 2000)'s five-move analysis model to identify the abstracts of theses and dissertations in English and Indonesian final papers and concluded that its genre development reflected through the level of study as doctoral degree's dissertations display richer varieties of moves than master's theses.…”

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