Abstract:
There has been a growing interest in the rhetorical move structure of research articles. Research
studies across disciplines have been done to investigate similarity or dissimilarity in the research
article introduction due to its crucial role. This study aims at finding the rhetorical moves as well as
the sequencing pattern of literary journal articles from different accredited indexing. This study was
done using qualitative method with document analysis technique. 22 literary journal articles from
Sinta 1-6 indexed journal were taken as the source of data. The findings of the study revealed
majority of the articles contain all of the moves suggested by Swale. However, some of the moves
were also missing from several articles especially 2nd and 3rd moves. The sequencing of points
elaborated from those moves also varied from each article. Moreover, the standardized level of
indexing in a journal does not determine the quality of the research paper's introduction. This is
because there is no uniformity in the world of rhetorical patterns in writing since each writer or
author has their own style. |
