MOVE STRUCTURE OF INTRODUCTIONS IN THE FINAL REPORTS WRITTEN BY THE STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT SRIWIJAYA STATE POLYTECHNIC

The objectives of the study are to identify rhetorical functions in the Introduction Chapter of Final Report and to examine whether rhetorical functions utilized by the students of English Department at Sriwijaya State Polytechnic have or have not fulfilled the rhetorical structure proposed in Swales‟ move model. The corpus was collected through purposive random sampling from a number of final reports written by the students. The study used Swales‟ move model in analyzing the corpus. The results indicate that, despite similarities with Swales‟ move model, there are some differences between the students‟ introductions and the model. It is assumed that the different features of the rhetorical structures are influenced by specific characteristics of the polytechnic final reports and their academic writing capacity. Most of the introductions have not met the criteria or principles as suggested in Swales‟ move. This study shows that there is a need to teach the principles of scientific writing to the students and increase their awareness of rhetorical structure of academic genre. The study has shown that Swales‟ model is useful framework in analyzing students‟ final report introductions, but other studies are necessary to compare and reveal their specific characteristics in different disciplines.