TY  - JOUR
T1  - ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: A RHETORICAL MOVES ANALYSIS OF ABSTRACTS
AU  - Sidek, Harison Mohd
PY  - 2017
DA  - December
DO  - 10.18769/ijasos.401178
JF  - IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences
JO  - IJASOS
PB  - OCERINT International Organization Center of Academic Research
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2411-183X
SP  - 1112
EP  - 1119
VL  - 3
IS  - 9
LA  - en
AB  - The firstimpression of an academic paper lies in its abstract because it provides thereaders with an overview of the quality, relevancy and significance of thepaper. Such first overall impression may determine the chances of the fullpaper being read or simply eliminated; which reader’s decision has an impact onthe author’s opportunity either for his work to be cited and disseminated ordisregarded. Therefore, it is critically important for academics at higherinstitutions to be able to present the summary of their works in the mostcomprehensive, systematic, clear and effective manner; one of the ways is byusing the essential rhetorical moves framework as a guideline for abstractwriting. The purpose of the present study was to analyze whether or notentrepreneurial educators include essential rhetorical moves in theirconference proceedings abstracts using the revised model of Hyland’s (2000)rhetorical moves. In addition, the study also examined the types of rhetoricalmoves sequence presented in the selected abstracts. Purposive sampling was usedfor data collection.  Hyland’s (2000)five-moves classification was revised and expanded to include the sixthrhetorical move labeled as Implications of which modification results in asix-moves classification. The six rhetorical moves in the revised model wereused as the coding in analyzing the moves structure of the selected abstractsand types of sequence. The data were analyzed using manifest and latent contentanalyses. The findings reveal that only one abstract satisfies the sixrhetorical moves while the other abstract contains only parts of the rhetoricalmoves with the types of moves sequence being highly varied. The study concludesthat while academics do include the essential rhetorical moves when presentingtheir abstracts, in majority, they are still lacking of awareness in what anabstract should be. The implications of the findings were discussed in terms ofawareness-raising amongst academics concerning the importance of producing anabstract that is comprehensive, systematic, clear and effective.
KW  - Abstract
KW  - academics
KW  - academic writing
KW  - rhetorical moves
KW  - conference proceedings
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.401178
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/434535
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