Interactive Metadiscourse in Finding and Discussion Section of Theses at English Department Universitas Negeri Jakarta

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10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.320How to use a DOI?

Keywords

interactive metadiscourse; metadiscourse markers; thesis writing; finding and discussion section

Abstract

Interactive metadiscourse is one of the sub categorizes of metadiscourse markers which refers to a feature used to construct and organize the information effectively in order to make coherent and convincing written text. Based on Hyland (2004), interactive metadiscourse consists of five categories, they are; transitions, frame markers, endphoric markers, evidentials, and code-glosses. The purpose of this study are to find out the types of interactive metadiscourse features used by English postgraduate students in their finding and discussion section of theses and to find out how interactive metadiscourse used in finding and discussion section of theses. This study implemented content analysis to identify, classify and analyses the interactive metadiscourse. The data sources are 10 finding and discussion section of theses from postgraduate students of English Department, Universitas Negeri Jakarta. The data of this study are words, phrases and clauses which were identified in those data sources. The result of this study showed that transitions were dominantly appeared with 634 words from the total 1540 interactive metadiscourse found or it was most frequently used with 41% followed by endophoric markers with 20%. The high use of transitions indicates that the writers want to create a coherent and cohesive written text by connecting the arguments within sentences or paragraphs. While the endophoric markers were used to help the writer referring the information in other part of the text.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Syifa Fadhilah Hamid
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - Interactive Metadiscourse in Finding and Discussion Section of Theses at English Department Universitas Negeri Jakarta
BT  - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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