- The document analyzes the rhetorical moves in the findings and discussion sections of 113 unpublished research articles written by Indonesian undergraduate EFL students.
- It finds that most sections included the four main moves of providing background information, reporting results, summarizing results, and commenting on results. However, some sections lacked detailed information in steps like explaining findings or highlighting significance.
- Randomized rhetorical patterns were also dominant, which can reduce clarity and rigor. Despite this, linguistic realizations like tense and voice mostly conformed to conventions.
This study was an assessment of authorial stance using engagement framework by Tanzanian EFL academic writers so as to reveal the linguistic resources that enable authors to present a stance toward the research they are reviewing and presenting. Specifically, the study sought to i) explore pattern of expanding and contracting in presenting authorial stance in the selected dissertations and theses, ii) assess the authors’ linguistic resources for expanding moves, and iii) assess the linguistic resources for contracting moves by the authors. The study adapted Martin and White (2005) engagement system framework focusing on heterogloss. The study was conducted at the Open University of Tanzania. We analyzed the engagement of 20 EFL post-graduate theses and 20 Dissertations at Master’s and Doctoral levels by the EFL candidates/authors and used document analysis as a sole tool of data gathering. In conducting analyses of these texts, each was first broken down into non-embedded clauses and analyzed based on the engagement system belonging to heterogloss categories then their respective sub-categories. Findings revealed that the dissertation/theses writers varied in their mode of registering their stances towards the subject matter and thence proven heteroglossic rather than monoglossic. In that way they were able to establish their authorial territory and claim their visibility or presence instead of being compilers or reporters of findings by others. It was further noted that author stance was more noticed in literature review and introduction chapters.
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A Genre Analysis Of Research Article Findings And Discussion Sections Written By Indonesian Undergraduate EFL Students
1. INDONESIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Vol. 10 No. 1, May 2020, pp. 59-72
Available online at:
https://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/IJAL/article/view/24989
https://doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v10i1.24989
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* Corresponding Author
Email: lubis_ah@upi.edu
A genre analysis of research article ‘findings and discussion’
sections written by Indonesian undergraduate EFL students
Didi Suherdi1
, Eri Kurniawan1
, and Arif Husein Lubis2*
1
Department of English Education, Faculty of Language and Literature Education, Universitas Pendidikan
Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudhi 229, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
2
Department of Korean Language Education, Faculty of Language and Literature Education, Universitas
Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudhi 229, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
ABSTRACT
The quality of findings and discussion (F&D) section in a research article is crucial to elucidate
the results of a particular inquiry and to situate the significance of the results in the body of
knowledge through publications in scientific journals. Previous academic genre analysis has
generated several models to help novice writers develop the rhetorical moves of the F&D sections
across disciplines. However, the study on the quality of the rhetorical moves in the undergraduate
EFL students’ research articles is still scarce. Hence, this study seeks to examine the manifestation
of rhetorical moves in the findings and discussion sections written by Indonesian undergraduate
EFL students. A total of 113 unpublished ELT research articles from a state educational university
in Bandung was selected as the target corpus. AntMover 1.10 was employed as the analysis tool.
The top-down approach was carried out to obtain the existing rhetorical structure using Ruiying
and Allison’s (2003) framework as the guideline. The bottom-up approach was used to scrutinize
the linguistic realizations of the rhetorical moves. The findings demonstrated that, in the move
level, most of the students’ F&D sections had manifested the four moves, i.e., providing
background information, reporting results, summarizing results, and commenting on results.
However, in the step level, a number of F&D sections did not provide detailed information
regarding the sequence of the findings presentation, the analysis procedure to obtain the findings,
the explanation for the findings, and the highlight of the significance of the findings. The
randomized rhetorical patterns were also dominant. It can downgrade the clarity and rigor of the
F&D sections. Despite that, the linguistic realizations of the moves, particularly the tense and
sentence voice, mostly conformed to the norms. The findings may serve as a reference to develop
the teaching materials of English for research publication purposes (ERPP).
Keywords: English for research publication purposes; findings and discussion section; genre
analysis; rhetorical moves; undergraduate EFL students
First Received:
15 January 2020
Revised:
18 March 2020
Accepted:
20 April 2020
Final Proof Received:
19 May 2020
Published:
31 May 2020
How to cite (in APA style):
Suherdi, D., Kurniawan, E., & Lubis, A. H. (2020). A genre analysis of research article
‘findings and discussion’ sections written by Indonesian undergraduate EFL students.
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 10(1), 59-72.
https://doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v10i1.24989
INTRODUCTION
The increasing demand to possess the abilities to
write research articles (hereafter RAs) for
international publication purposes is apparent. The
abilities enable the writers to elevate the publication
productivity rate as one of the indicators of
highlighting individual and institutional reputations.
The use of English as the medium of international
scientific communication (Ferguson et al., 2011;
Hamel, 2007; Tardy, 2004) is definitive in recent
years. Consequently, the successful dissemination of
academic knowledge worldwide through