The Components of Abstracts in the Areas of Indonesian International Journals

The readers prefer to read the abstract in order to find out the contents.
It has to be short, easily read, and understandable. It consists of
complete elements or components. The aimed of this study were to
reveal the components of abstract and to find out what were patterns
of moves. The researchers used descriptive qualitative approach
because this study focused on the analysis or interpretation of the
written material in context. Quirkos Application was used to sort,
manage, analyzed and understand the data. From the results that
already exist, there are thirteen procedures of writing abstracts used
by writers in Indonesian International Journals Indexed Scopus. Those
were I, IP, IR, IPR, IRD, IMR, PMR, PMD, IMRD, PMRD, IPMR,
PIRM, and IPMRD. There are limitations in this research that have to
be considered. First, this corpus consists of abstracts in only areas of
Indonesia. Second, further research is necessary to determine the
variables that affect the writers’ model in writing an appropriate
abstract. Thirdly, the researchers only analyzed 47 abstracts.