Rhetorical Strategies for Appeal to Logos in Research Abstracts: An Analysis of Rhetoric

Mohamad, Hanis Adiba; Pilus, Zahariah; MOHAINI, M. L.; ZOLKAPLI, R. B. MD; Wahab, Nadiah Hanim Abdul

doi:10.33306/mjssh/200

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“…The language mastery challenged the textuality, which limited the authors' academic language expressions and strategies. Some previous studies identified this phenomenon, for example Mohamad et al (2022) and Oravițan et al (2022). Textuality might be caused by the authors English proficiency and the awareness of academic writing convention (Ahmad, 2022;Amnuai, 2019;Fang, 2021;Solikhah, 2016).…”

Section: Textualitymentioning

confidence: 93%

Rhetorical Functions of Articles in SINTA Accredited Journal

Dardjito,

Rolls,

Ikrarini

et al. 2023

scr. j. j. linguist. engl. teach.

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Background: In the past ten years or so, the publication of research journal articles has been increasing and growing. The development is even more significant when the Higher Education in Circular Letter No.152 / E / T / 2012 requires article writing for students of all levels as one of the graduation requirements. The publication of articles, especially in English-language journals, is a challenge for Indonesian authors to be able to produce scientific papers that not only meet scientific rules but also linguistic rules in English. Methodology: This study aims to see the function of rhetorical moves in English journal articles published in SINTA-accredited journals. The part of the article to be studied is focused on the Introduction which has the main role of providing general information about the research background. The rhetoric function of this article will show a series of texts that have a specific function in the Introduction. The sample of this study was taken from articles in the SINTA-accredited journals level 2 and written in English written by authors of non-English-language disciplines. Two articles were randomly selected from each journal so in total it amounted to 16 articles. Findings: This study looks at what rhetorical functions were used, and the textuality of the rhetorical functions used in the Introduction to articles written and published in SINTA-accredited journals level 2. “Indicating the Structure of the Research Paper” and “Announcing Principal Findings” were the least two rhetorical functions stated by the authors in the Introduction section. Two articles in this study fulfil the textuality components but the rests fail to fulfill the textuality components. Conclusion: Writing journal articles in English is a great challenge for Authors with an English as a foreign language (EFL) background. Language proficiency, academic language mastery, academic writing convention and mechanics awareness which include rhetorical functions and textuality might distract their content writing competence. Originality: Many studies searched the rhetorical functions of postgraduate theses, journal articles, and thesis abstracts in English written by non-native English; however, research on journal articles by Indonesian journal publishers is limited.

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Section: Textualitymentioning

confidence: 93%

Rhetorical Functions of Articles in SINTA Accredited Journal

Dardjito,

Rolls,

Ikrarini

et al. 2023

scr. j. j. linguist. engl. teach.

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“…As discussed in the earlier section of the research, the lack of differences in the use of academic research rhetorical features would suggest the near-native English level of academic rhetoric. This argument was substantiated by Vinkers et al (2015); Mohamad (2022) and Mohamad et al (2022) based on their studies of academic research abstract compositions. The lack of significant differences in the use of negative words and phrases between native and non-native English research abstracts would demonstrate the near native English rhetoric of Malaysian nonnative English writers in composing their research abstracts to emotionally appeal to the readers.…”

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“…However, marked differences were not shown in the use of neutral words. Based on the near-native rhetoric postulated by Mohamad et al (2022), the lack of differences in these rhetorical features suggested the non-native English writers' nearnative English levels of rhetoric in academic research composition.…”

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The rhetorical density of authorial emotiveness and voice passiveness in abstract compositions

Mohamad¹,

Pilus²,

Zolkapli³

et al. 2023

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The study sought to examine authorial emotiveness and passive tone of academic writing in academic research abstracts (RAs) to appeal to the Aristotelian pathos. Based on the integrated framework of Contrastive Rhetoric and Domain of Emotional Tone, this study investigated the overall demonstration of emotional appeal through quantitative content analysis of two rhetorical items - emotive phrases and passive voice in subtly ‘colouring’ the academic tone of research abstracts. Four hundred eighty (480) research abstracts (RAs) of the international non-native English writers (INE) and Malaysian non-native English writers (MNNE) were sampled from 88 national and international indexed journals. Two quantitative analysis tools were used to auto-generate the frequency percentages, which were then analysed with SPSS. It was found that MNNE RAs showed a significantly denser level of overall emotional appeal than INE RAs. The authorial tones of emotiveness and passiveness were also distinctly heavier in academic MNNE RAs than INE RAs. These were concluded as the marked rhetorical features of non-native English writers, deflecting them from the ones used by native English writers. In terms of research implication, the common trend of these features was not to be misconstrued by MNNE writers as the main rhetorical appeal of research composition.

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“…This was probably due to the compositional act of summarising the research work performed at the last stage of the research writing process without due and fair degree of academic concern when it should have been the most critical section to be given the most attention and consideration in terms of the organisational move structure. It would be used as the main window firstly presented to invite the readership into an entire article which was underscored by Connor (1996) and Mohamad et al (2022) that major variations of the commonly known structure with disorganised or missing parts, would most likely compromise the interest of the readers to give their time and commitment to read the full papers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The rhetoric of academic research writing is imbued with many rhetorical and linguistic features. Mohamad et al (2022) identified these features to be prevalent at the various levels of operational compositions, such as the lexical, phrasal, sentential, and organisational or discourse levels. A logically arranged presentation of research ideas at the genre-based discourse level reflects a writer's mental structure and thought process in transferring the information of their research points in a well-thought-out and analytically systematised form.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analytical Appeals of Move Structures in Systematically Organising and Communicating Research Ideas

Azhar Mohamad,

Abdul Wahab,

Ravinthra Nath

et al. 2023

IJAREMS

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This study sought to examine the use of a specific type of rhetorical move structure known as the ILMC (Introduction -Literature -Method -Conclusion) organisational model in writing academic research abstract compositions (RACs). A linear structure of writing development commonly associated with native English writers would aid in creating the logical appeal of the academic research composition. This was substantiated by the theoretical concept of Aristotelian Rhetoric to underscore the significance of rhetorical appeal in the form of logos or logical domain shown by the academic research writers. The research design was content analysis in which 480 RACs were employed based on the criterion method of sampling from eighty-eight indexed journals both from Malaysia and International research open-access journal repositories. A qualitative software of NVivo12 was used by the present researcher in manually analysing the employment of the ILMC move structures and its sub-types. The major findings revealed that writers of English as a second language (WESL) from Malaysia employed the sequential form of ILMC move structure, being the standard characteristic of the Anglo-European style of straightforward writing development in expanding the main points of a topic under examination. However, they had difficulties in ascertaining that all parts of the ILMC move structure were retained as they showed more missing moves dedicated to Literature and Methodology sections than the English writers from the UK, US, and Australia utilised these moves for the same sections. It was concluded that Malaysian ESL writers showed the importance of showing the standard linear writing structure commonly used by

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Rhetorical Strategies for Appeal to Logos in Research Abstracts: An Analysis of Rhetoric

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Rhetorical Functions of Articles in SINTA Accredited Journal

The rhetorical density of authorial emotiveness and voice passiveness in abstract compositions

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