The ability to analyze scientific articles is important for students to have to complete their studies. This study aimed to describe the ability to analyze scientific articles of fifth-semester students of PGMI IAIN Sorong, which was measured based on the ability to recognize the rhetorical move of articles. The research design was in the form of a survey with a sample of 28 students. The study results, which were analyzed using the percentage technique, showed that the analytical ability of the fifth-semester students of PGMI IAIN Sorong was still low in identifying the rhetorical movement of articles. The objective aspect (85.71% correct answer) and conclusion (75% correct answer) are the easiest aspects to identify, followed by the implication aspect (53.57% correct answer), while the motive, support, counterargument, and refutation aspects (0% correct answer) could not be identified.