Move Analysis of Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts of Local and International Graduate Lecturers
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.088How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Abstracts, linguistic features, move analysis, rhetorical moves
- Abstract
Move analysis is one of the genre-based approaches used to analyse the rhetorical structure of academic writing, in which one of them is research abstracts. While rhetorical moves of RA abstract are considerably looked into, the abstract of theses and dissertations is under-explored. The present study aims to investigate the rhetorical moves in abstracts of master’s theses and dissertations along with its linguistic realization. It also aims to reveal the similarities and differences between abstracts written for final papers in Indonesian universities and universities in English-speaking countries. The study analyzed abstracts of final papers for master’s (S2) and doctoral (S3) degree written by Indonesian local and international graduate lecturers using Hyland’s (2000) five-move analysis model as the framework of the study. The findings unfolded that there were some similarities and variations in the move and step occurrences. The use of embedded moves was also found in the study. In terms of language features, similarities in the use of tenses, voice and verb types between abstracts were found. The variations found in the study give a clearer picture to help constructing a more universal guideline for abstract writing in higher education.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- 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 - Tara Devina Putri AU - Eri Kurniawan AU - Wawan Gunawan AU - Arif Husein Lubis PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/28 TI - Move Analysis of Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts of Local and International Graduate Lecturers BT - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 581 EP - 586 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.088 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.088 ID - Putri2021 ER -