Thematic Progression Patterns in National and International Journals

Abstract

This research aimed to find out the dominant type of thematic progression pattern employed by writers in abstract sections in accredited national, international journals, and to find out the differences or similarities of thematic progression pattern between two level journals. This study used the documentation technique and table checklist. Forty abstract articles were analyzed by using mixed-method design. The result of this study showed that the most dominant pattern found in national journal is constant theme (65%) and the dominant pattern of thematic progression in international journal was found constant theme (80%).  Based on the result, there was no significance different between two journals, national and international journals. In conclusion was that only two patterns of thematic progression were used. The constant theme pattern is the most dominant in abstract section in national and international journals and there was no significance different between two journals. Finally, the researcher suggests this research for lecturers who can use this research as guidelines to teach academic writing, for supervisors to tell her/his students to applied these patterns in writing thesis, and for the next researchers who might be have the same interest about thematic progression patterns as well in different area.