THE THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERN IN PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT FOUND IN THE INTRODUCTION OF SCOPUS JOURNALS WRITTEN BY EXPERT WRITERS

Poppy Puspita, Siska Siska, Sesmiyanti Sesmiyanti

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Paragraph development is the way the author develops an idea in a paragraph. In developing writing ideas, writers are encouraged to pay attention to thematic developments. As in this study, the researcher examined how expert writers construct ideas in the introductory paragraphs of international journals consisting of the five highest indexed countries based on the SCIMAGO portal ranking using a thematic development pattern instrument. The type of this research was qualitative research with descriptive analysis. The introduction researched consisted of five journals preliminary documents totaling thirteen paragraphs. The five documents were SCOPUS journals with the theme Language Teaching and English Teaching. The results of this study stated that of the thirteen introductory paragraphs of the journal, expert writers used paragraph development in an argumentative, descriptive and comparison-contrast way. Then, from all argumentative paragraph development, expert writers tend to use the same thematic development pattern, namely constant rheme. In comparison-contrast development found, the writer used constant rheme. Then, in developing descriptive paragraphs expert writers used constant theme thematic progression patterns. So, based on these findings, it can be concluded that the expert writers from various countries tend to use the same thematic patterns in the development of the paragraphs found.


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