Rhetorical moves of english thesis abstracts of education student at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya

Rhetorical moves are a series of scientific work that has parts, namely the introduction purpose, methods, result, and conclusion. All of those must be sequential and complete to make informative abstracts. The purposes of this research are to identify the rhetorical moves of students’ thesis abstract and to describe the rhetorical moves realized in student thesis abstract. This study used qualitative as approach and research design is a content or document analysis. The data was taken from education student’s thesis abstract at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya. The available data is 10 students abstract. Rubric from Swales Model is used for research instrument. The research finding shows that, there are four move analyses: Introduction Purpose (100%), Methods (100%), Results (100%), and Conclusion (40%). Also, this study indicates the differences sequence of rhetorical moves in their abstract. This indicates that the students know the rhetorical elements in an abstract but they have variations in structuring the elements. Therefore, these are ways that must be done so that the students can improve their ability to write scientific papers, especially in abstract