Writing in a Foreign Language: The Rhetorical and Argument Styles in Research Article Drafts by Nonnative Speakers of English in Linguistics and Language Education

Unlike for lecturers in Engineering, Medicine, Computer Science, and Agriculture Biology Sciences, Indonesian Social Sciences Humanities including Linguistics Language Education (LLE), publishing research articles reputable or indexed international journals is very difficult. The possible cause of the difficulty their unfamiliarity with correct appropriate use rhetorical style as expected by journal readers. This study aimed at investigating article (RA) drafts written English Applied Linguistic five different universities Indonesia (i.e., Bengkulu University, Padang State Atmajaya Catholic Mataram Makassar University). A corpus 20 RA was analyzed on linguistic quality using a genre-based method. results show that majority have addressed important moves each section but terms argument still needs improvement. implies university LLE need to be familiar able argue well it