Abstract
Abstract in the thesis is a must, even in the journal, research article, conference, or dissertation. People could decide whether they want to continue the full content in the paper through abstract. This research aims to what extent the rhetorical structure of abstracts follows the structure of their RAs in terms of IMRD structure and what rhetorical moves writers most frequently employ in the abstract sections of the Bachelor Abstract Thesis English Education Department. Corpus data was used to do the research. The document of abstracts 40 in total and were chosen from Undergraduate degree students in English Education Department at Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. The abstracts were selected randomly, and it is consists of two types of concentrations in the field of education and literature. The selected abstracts were published between 2018 to 2019. The instruments were using Hyland's (2000) five moves to identify the selected abstracts' rhetorical structure. The result showed that most of the abstracts have a purpose (100%), then method (97,5%), and the result or product is 87,5%. The conclusion is only 22,5%, and the introduction was rarely used, it showed only 5%.
Highlights
One of the requirements to get a degree in university, whether, in Doctor, Master, Bachelor, or Diploma, students have to write a thesis or dissertation and the abstract always at the beginning of the thesis
Sidek (2017) argued that each abstract included only approximately 62% of the abstract rhetorical moves based on the six-moves rhetorical classification coding
Based on the data, the conclusion is only 20%, which is dominantly found in the education abstract
Summary
One of the requirements to get a degree in university, whether, in Doctor, Master, Bachelor, or Diploma, students have to write a thesis or dissertation and the abstract always at the beginning of the thesis. When reading a journal article, thesis, or dissertation will take a long time to know the content. Conference, or even in the thesis or dissertation, the writer needs to write abstracts first before they want to submit the whole research article. An overview of the content of the article is called abstract It helps the reader whether they want to continue or chose to read further the item or not. This is in line with Berkenkotter &. "Vocabulary is a crucial element in learning English. It has an important role in building communication. One of the games is an emergency vocabulary game applied in Gama English Course Wonogiri” (education field)
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