Appraisals Analysis On The Argumentation Structure Of Indonesian Undergraduate Students’ Research Articles

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the argumentation structure of undergraduate students’ research articles that focus on the introduction section. The data collection was conducted by analyzing the proceedings in the "Background" section written by undergraduate students at university in Indonesia. The data were then analyzed by using a corpus. This research found types of the argument of this study were proclaim, disclaim, entertain, and attribute. The lexical choice that was used proclaim with a total of 46. Entertain lexemes a total of 37. The next lexical choice was used disclaim with a total of 33. Finally, attribute a total of 26 as the lowest engagement in appraisal. Through the findings and discussion, this study implies that the more complex the argumentation structure, the more academic vocabularies that the students could use to enhance the quality of their writing. In order to enable undergraduate students to be critical, disclaim lexemes through rebuttal section could be endorsed more in the writing activities. Since this study was limited to only one proceeding as the data, we suggest that more data sources can be conducted to broaden the discussion about this topic.