This paper is concerned with rhetorical argumentation that aims to alter the beliefs of the listener, and so to influence his future actions, as opposed to classical argumentation that is concerned with the generation of arguments, usually as logical proofs, for and against a given course of action. Rhetorical argumentation includes rhetoric moves such as Threat, Reward and Appeal. Rhetorical a...

Rhetoric in an abstract writing literally means the techniques a writer might use to deliver complicated information limited amount of space effectively and intentionally. However, as being non-native speaking (NNS) writers, Indonesian EFL Graduate students often have difficulties producing, organizing, delivering ideas into widely accepted international standard English academic conventions. T...

the present paper focused on the sociocultural explanations of rhetorical differences between english and persian and was based on the contrastive genre analysis of applied linguistics research article abstracts in these two languages. the evolutionary nature of research article abstracts was also investigated from 1985 to 2005, in three stages, with a time interval of 10 years. seventy eight r...

communicative moves and lexical cohesion patterns (lcps), as mounting evidence shows, are two important indicators in writing and publishing the ras. however, the interaction between these two crucial elements and the contribution of this interaction to the failure or success of the ras have not been given due attention to date. having this in mind and based on a sound theoretical framework, at...

This paper presents the study of rhetorical moves on thesis abstracts accounting students at Muhammadiyah University Bengkulu. The motive this research is to examine how far students' understanding in using their abstracts. Under qualitative descriptive method, 20 are taken randomly based abstract, which was being proofread Language Center Bengkulu, 2021. Data were further discussed light by Sw...

      During recent decades publishing articles in academic journals has become a worldwide urge for all members of academia. There is, however, a widespread belief according to which more value is given to the articles published in internationally-recognized, high standard journals. An issue raised in this regard is whether the articles published in highly prestigious journals are remarkably d...