Engagement system in the introduction sections of international journal articles

Abstract

The present study aimed at investigating Engagement system in the introduction sections of international journal articles. The Engagement is used to analyze how the journal article writers engage the other viewpoints in constructing the idea in their introduction sections. The data of the study were 20 introduction sections of articles from international well reputed scholarly published journal. The journal articles were taken from publication year 2015 and 2016. The findings of the study showed that from 409 clauses, 104 clauses are categorized as monogloss which means the writer of the articles show no engagement with other viewpoints in their sentences. The other 305 clauses are categorized as heterogloss. The heterogloss clauses then are further analysed into engagement features. The dominant Engagement feature is acknowledged which are represented in 84 clauses or 20.5%. The dominance of acknowledge shows that dominantly the writers of the journal articles acknowledge other experts or researchers in order to support their own idea in the writing of introduction sections