摘要：Indonesian scholars in social sciences and humanities are far behind scholars in
sciences and engineering in international journal publication and their unfamiliarity
with English rhetorical style has been blamed as the main cause. The purpose of
this study is to improve the rhetorical quality of research article drafts written by
Indonesian university lecturers in social sciences and humanities. Using genrebased
method, a group of 20 lecturers were mentored to improve the rhetorical
quality of their research article abstracts, introductions, methods and discussions
and their drafts were evaluated following the frameworks suggested by Swales
(1990 and 2004), Swales et al., (2009), Peacock (2011) and Lim (2006). The
results show that the rhetorical quality of the lecturer’s article drafts satisfactorily
improved in terms of the rhetorical moves and steps, the way they justify their
research project and the number of references they use in their drafts. This implies
that genre-based mentoring is effective enough to improve the ability of lecturers
in writing research articles to be published in reputable international journals.
关键词：genre;based mentoring; reputable international journals; research article;
university lecturers; social sciences; humanities
