MOVE OF THE METHODOLOGY SECTIONS OF ENGLISH
STUDENTS’ THESES AT ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAM OF
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF BENGKULU

MOVE OF THE METHODOLOGY SECTIONS OF ENGLISH
STUDENTS’ THESES AT ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAM OF
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF BENGKULU

The research objectives were to find out the moves found in the Methodology
Sections of English Students‟ Theses and to find out the dominant move found in
the Methodology Sections of English Students‟ Theses at English Education
Program of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu. The design of this study was
descriptive method. The object of this study is the Thesis that were written by
eight semester students of English Study Program of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu
in 2018/2019 Academic Year. The researcher focused on analyzing the
Methodology Section of Thesis as the corpus of the study. Since this research is a
descriptive study, the researcher use table of checklist to find out the rhetorical
move used by students in writing methodology sections of thesis. The researcher
used theory from Lim (2006) as the basis of the move analysis of the method
sections of the corpus in the present study. There were two findings of this
research :(1) The move found in the Methodology Sections of English

TOMMY AGUNG RAHARJO
NPM: 1521110001

Pembimbing :
Ria Angraini,S.Pd, M.Hum

Penguji I:
Sinarman Jaya, M.Pd

Penguji II:
Ririn Putri Ananda, M.Pd

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UPT Perpustakaan

24 September 2021

Universitas Muhammadiyah Bengkulu

Universitas Muhammadiyah Bengkulu

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