A Comparison of Indonesian and English Research Articles Written by Indonesian Academics: Integrating Perspectives on Genre and Rhetorical Diversity

Title
A Comparison of Indonesian and English Research Articles Written by Indonesian Academics: Integrating Perspectives on Genre and Rhetorical Diversity
Publication Date
2014
Author(s)
Rakhmawati, Ani
Ellis, Elizabeth
( supervisor )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7936-7651
Email: eellis4@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:eellis4
Reid, Nicholas
( supervisor )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1055-1458
Email: nreid@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:nreid
Chan, Eveline
( supervisor )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1096-0158
Email: echan4@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:echan4
Basthomi, Yazid
Type of document
Thesis Doctoral
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
UNE publication id
une:17117
Abstract
This study is an investigation of the rhetorical features of research articles (RAs) written by Indonesian academics in the Applied Linguistics discipline. This contrastive rhetoric study addresses the question of whether Indonesian academics have the same or different communicative purposes and use the same or different rhetorical organisation when they write RAs in English and in Indonesian. The analysis focuses on the Introduction and the Discussion sections. The investigation reveals that the majority of RAs published in national accredited Indonesian journals consistently employ the conventional format of English RAs written by native speakers. RAs written by Indonesian academics have similar communicative purposes and use the same rhetorical features whether they write in Indonesian or in English. The comparison demonstrates a relatively consistent realisation of rhetorical organisation between RAs written in English and in Indonesian.
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