Abstract:This research aims to analyze and investigate the rhetorical patterns used by undergraduate ELT students in writing the introductory section of thesis proposals. This study focuses on the rhetorical structures (rhetorical moves) used by the students, in particular how the argumentation and rhetorical patterns of thesis proposal writing are adopted by the students. This study uses a mixed sequential explanatory method, which investigates the rhetorical patterns used by students quantitatively through text analy… Show more
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