The Rhetorical Structure and Language Features of Abstracts in College Students’ Final Projects  

Oleh:

Handayani, Lilik

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 2, page 398-404.
Topik: rhetorical structure; language features; abstract of final projects
Fulltext: hal 398.pdf (15.04MB)

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The abstract of final research project is the main reflection of the value of the research. The readers can obtain the major extract information about the final research project through a well written abstract. This paper reports on the rhetorical structure and language features of abstracts in college students’ final project by conducting a genre analysis to explore a situated linguistic behaviour in institutionalized academic settings. The college students participated in this research are students of Shipbuilding Institute of Polytechnic Surabaya comprising of seven classes from Diploma 3 Programs within 30 students in each class. Regarding the large amount of the population, the sample is selected by using stratified random sampling to accommodate the whole characteristics and majors of participants. The source of data is abstracts of the final projects of 2013 graduations from those D3 classes. The findings reveal that the rhetorical structure of college students’ abstracts includes introduction, method and conclusion in term of result of analysis or calculation. The sentence pattern of language features is similar by using passive and active sentences within impersonal language. The technical terms are quite diverse depending on the majors or fields of study. Therefore as a pedagogical implication, the English teacher should train and design assessment task to develop students’ writing macro-skills by providing adequate knowledge of the rhetorical structure as well as language features dealing with the correct sentence patterns and appropriate technical termsin writing a good and effective abstract.

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