The Common Move and Step in Research Article Abstracts

Abstract

Move and step are components that can provide effective contribution to overall communicative purpose in research article. This study aims to investigate the moves and steps in 48 abstracts publication from cross-disciplinary study under UM journal website. The design of this study is qualitative research. Swales et.al (2014) and Hyland’s (2000) models are used to identify moves and steps occurrence. The result shows that the majority of abstracts use M3 (46 abstracts), M4 (44 abstracts), M2 (40 abstracts). Authors mostly apply step 1 in M2 (40 times), step 1 in M4 (42 times), and step 3 in M3 (35 times).