The Moves in the Application Letters of PT Polysindo Eka Perkasa’s Applicants

Abstract

An application letter is a text which has its own genre with its specific features such as grammar, organization of the text and the context which are different from other text types. Although it has permanent sequence of moves, in fact it may apply different moves if it is written by different people to perform a specific communicative function and fulfill the individual need of the writers. This study was done to analyze kinds of moves, their sequence and the dominant moves used in the application letters. The analysis was done on thirteen application letters sent to PT Polysindo Eka Perkasa. The study is qualitative research and some steps were analyzed quantitatively in the form of percentages. The results of the analysis showed that there were moves within moves found both in the theory and in the application letters. In the theory, there are 9 moves at the first level, 27 moves at the second level and 35 moves in the third level. The number of moves found in the application letters at the first level was 12 and became 35 moves at the second level and 43 moves at the third level. It means that there are 8 additional moves.  Although more moves were found in all application letters, none of them had complete moves in one letter, which was caused by overlapping moves, missing moves, and disordered moves.

Keywords : moves, application letter