The objective of this qualitative study is to investigate the students’ paraphrasing in the literature review section of research proposal. Six English Department students, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo were selected as the respondents. The study reveals that the paraphrasing of three students falls under a moderate revision category, and the other three are in the category of near copy. Such a result is based on the results of the students’ paraphrasing and their understanding of the concepts of effective paraphrasing, namely comprehension of good paraphrasing, analytic reading skills and its correlation in applying paraphrasing strategies, and citation mechanics. On that ground, the study suggests that improving students’ concept of paraphrasing in reviewing the literature is a necessity. Related stakeholders are urged to help the students understand the idea of quality paraphrasing. Further research about paraphrasing to investigate other relevant issues and other textual borrowing mechanics is essential.
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This study is aimed at exploring the persuasive language strategies used by the candidates of mayor of Gorontalo in the mayoral electoral campaign of 2018. The data, in form of utterances, were taken from the speeches of their political campaign by using video recording. After the data were collected, those were firstly classified into the types of persuasive language strategies, then analyzed and interpreted regarding the function and the way the speaker used those strategies to persuade the audience. The result showed that the three candidates used the similar strategies to influence the audience of their political campaign. Those strategies are reason and logic, evidence, attack, appeal to a sense of justice, appeal to the hip-pocket nerve, appeal to patriotism, repetition, and colloquial language. However, based on the interpretation, the different political background of the candidates influenced the way they used the strategies.
{"title":"Persuasive Language in Political Campaign","authors":"Fahria Malabar","doi":"10.37905/jetl.v1i2.7284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37905/jetl.v1i2.7284","url":null,"abstract":"This study is aimed at exploring the persuasive language strategies used by the candidates of mayor of Gorontalo in the mayoral electoral campaign of 2018. The data, in form of utterances, were taken from the speeches of their political campaign by using video recording. After the data were collected, those were firstly classified into the types of persuasive language strategies, then analyzed and interpreted regarding the function and the way the speaker used those strategies to persuade the audience. The result showed that the three candidates used the similar strategies to influence the audience of their political campaign. Those strategies are reason and logic, evidence, attack, appeal to a sense of justice, appeal to the hip-pocket nerve, appeal to patriotism, repetition, and colloquial language. However, based on the interpretation, the different political background of the candidates influenced the way they used the strategies.","PeriodicalId":126806,"journal":{"name":"Jambura Journal of English Teaching and Literature","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114904436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}