scholarly journals SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE PREPARATION: METHODOLOGY DESCRIPTION

2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincentas Lamanauskas
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
Continuous Activity

Scientific (academic) writing is continuous activity of every scientist (researcher), and therefore needs to be regularly advanced. Thus, it should be wrong to assume that writing proficiency is achieved once and for all. The skills of academic writing are essential for the independent acquisition of scientific knowledge and for disseminating the acquired information, i.e. sharing knowledge with others. On these grounds, it is worth remembering that a fully completed research paper, the clear results of the conducted research and specific and valid conclusions act as prerequisites for writing a good scientific article etc. Another trivial but important point is that writing an article (or other research paper) is barely a study itself, but only the presentation, dissemination and publicity of the findings. Consequently, even properly carried out research (exploration, examination etc.) and the obtained significant results may fail to be appropriately presented, and the importance of the produced results may simply ‘disappear’ in a poor description.

scholarly journals Analysing the behaviour of academic collocations in a corpus of research-papers: a data-driven study / Analisando o comportamento de colocações acadêmicas em um corpus de artigos científicos: um estudo dirigido por dados

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 1229
Author(s):  
Paula Tavares Pinto ◽  
Diva Cardoso de Camargo ◽  
Talita Serpa ◽  
Luciano Franco da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Electronic Library ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Respective Field ◽  
English Speaking

Abstract: Authors from different countries have published their papers in English, aiming to promote their research results widely and to become internationally known by their peers. It is also true that, although they are aware of the English terminology used in their respective field, some authors still struggle with some features of academic writing such as collocations. Thus, this paper presents a discussion on the underuse and overuse traces of academic collocations by Brazilian authors who had their articles published in English on an open electronic library of scientific journals. In order to analyse the collocations used by these researchers, we compiled a 906,035-word corpus from eight different academic areas. The collocations observed were statistically compared to those from an academic corpus of English writings which contains texts produced by English-speaking authors. Results showed that there are more collocations underused than overused by the authors. The analysis proved that the collocation repertoire of researchers could be broadened by being pointed out during academic writing workshops.Keywords: academic collocations; research paper writing; corpus linguistics.Resumo: Autores de vários países têm publicado seus artigos científicos em inglês com o intuito de promover amplamente os resultados de suas pesquisas dentre a comunidade científica internacional. É verdade que, embora estejam cientes da terminologia utilizada no respectivo campo de pesquisa, alguns autores ainda apresentam dificuldade em lidar com certas características da escrita acadêmica, como o uso das colocações. Este artigo apresenta uma discussão sobre traços de sobreuso e subuso de colocações acadêmicas utilizadas por autores brasileiros que têm seus artigos publicados em inglês numa plataforma eletrônica aberta de artigos científicos. Para analisar as colocações utilizadas por estes pesquisadores, compilamos um corpus de 906.000 palavras a partir de oito áreas científicas. As colocações analisadas foram comparadas estatisticamente com as colocações de um corpus acadêmico de inglês que contém textos escritos por autores anglófonos. Os resultados mostraram que há mais traços de subuso que sobreuso de colocações acadêmicas utilizadas pelos pesquisadores e este repertório poderia ser ampliado se fossem destacadas durante cursos de escrita acadêmica em língua inglesa.Palavras-chave: colocações acadêmicas; escrita de artigos científicos; linguística de corpus.

Thematic Progression and Paragraph Development in the experimental Research paper

1993 ◽  
Vol 101-102 ◽  
pp. 89-106
Author(s):  
Kevin Ngozi Nwogu
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Thematic Progression

Abstract Most technical and academic writing manuals attempt to instruct students on how to achieve a clear and readable discourse style. Very often, the instructions they provide are based on intuition rather than empirical research into authentic technical and experimental reports. This study presents an account of an investigation into the develop-ment of information in paragraphs in all section of an experimental research paper based on Danes (1970, 1974) functional theory of Thematic Progression (TP). The results show that TP correlates with the structure of text in the research paper and that different sections of the research paper tend to employ different TP patterns to develop the information they contain. This result is shown to have great im-plications for technical and academic writing.

scholarly journals A Model of Research Paper Writing Instructional Materials for Academic Writing Course: Needs & Documents Analysis and Model Design

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ali Ghufron ◽  
Mursid Saleh ◽  
. Warsono ◽  
Ahmad Sofwan
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Education ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Model Design ◽  
Writing Teachers ◽  
Writing Course

<p>This study aimed at designing a model of instructional materials for Academic Writing Course focusing on research paper writing. The model was designed based on the Curriculum at the English Education Study Program, Faculty of Language and Art Education of IKIP PGRI Bojonegoro, East Java, Indonesia. This model was developed in order to improve students’ skill in writing research paper which is one of the prerequisite tasks before graduating from university. The steps of this research and development consist of needs analysis, document analysis, model design, model development, and model experimentation. The researchers conducted needs analysis to the fifth semester students and three academic writing teachers, in order to generate information dealing with the students’ needs in academic writing course materials. The needs analysis and documents analysis were dug up through questionnaire, interview, and discussion among students and academic writing teachers. The documents analyzed in this study were syllabus, lesson plan, and the existing textbook. The model design used is derived from Borg and Gall (1983) and Sukmadinata (2008), in which there are four steps, i.e. (1) exploration phase; (2) model development phase; (3) model experimentation phase; and (4) dissemination and model implementation phase. The results of needs analysis questionnaire reveal that students need to be taught how to write academic writing in terms of journal article since it will be the final project of the students at the end of their study in university. Instructional materials with different strategies focused on research paper writing are needed by the students.</p>

scholarly journals Investigating Cohesion and Coherence Discourse Strategies of Chinese Students with Varied Lengths of Residence in Canada

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista Leo
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
First Language ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
Generation 1.5 ◽  
First Year ◽  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Discourse Strategies

This study examines how three age-on-arrival (AOA) groups of Chinese-background ESL students use two types of cohesive devices on a standardized essay exam. A discourse analysis of 90 first-year students’ expository writing samples was conducted to ascertain how factors such as first language (L1) and length of residence (LOR) in Canada influence a student’s ability to create cohesive and coherent writing. The study uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to explore how Canadian-born Chinese (CBC) students use lexical and referential discourse markers. Twelve essay features of this group of Generation 1.5 students are compared with those of two other cohorts of Chinese students with a shorter LOR. Key writing variables that measure academic writing proficiency were quantitatively analyzed to compare the expository writings of the CBC cohort with those of the later AOAs. Results indicate that synonymy and content words distinguish the writings of the CBC students from those of their later-arriving peers. A qualitative analysis of one CBC essay reveals that a more flexible and contextualized approach to evaluating writing by longterm Generation 1.5 students is required to acknowledge fully the productive lexical and discoursal strengths of these students.

scholarly journals A report on challenges faced by students and research scholars academic writing skill in English language

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-65
Author(s):  
DINESH K
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Writing Research ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Language Writing

Singh, A. K. G., et.al. (2020) in this world every country has its own language but in the reviewer has some common language that is second language or foreign language such as English language. Writing research paper is more difficult task with use of the English language because everyone well talented in our own natural language or mother tongue. Writing a research paper main aim to identify the L2 (English Language) syntax transferred from L1 (Mother Language). The method was chosen data collection instruments were document analysis and interview.

scholarly journals Analysing Aspect Influencing the academic writing in English Language

2021 ◽  
pp. 183-200
Author(s):  
MANJUPRIYA R
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
English Speaker ◽  
Subject Knowledge ◽  
Language Difficulty ◽  
Writing Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Learning By Reading

Karimnia, A. (2013) express that writing research paper in English is important because journal in all over the world are written in English. To succeed in their career, researchers have to share their ideas to others by publishing in journal must written in English. so, the researchers must master in English. The language difficulty that non-English speaker faced are lack of appropriate vocabulary, misuse of articles etc. The learning strategies can be divided into two i) subject knowledge-oriented strategies ii) language-oriented strategies. In subject knowledge-oriented strategies, learning by reading as many research paper in English and to increase experience in writing research paper.

scholarly journals An empirical study on problems faced by researchers while writing and publishing research papers in English

2021 ◽  
pp. 234-250
Author(s):  
RADHIKA C
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
International Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
Academic Language ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Publishing Research ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Research Papers

English as a universal academic language enables the international flexibility of researchers. Hynninen, N., &Kuteeva, M. (2017) have discussed the use of English in academic writing. In recent days most of the international research journals prefer English to be their choice due to dominated L2 writers. Writing a research paper is complex and academic research paper writing should be clear, formal, and precise. This study states that in what way the English language used for research writing in their domain by the researchers

scholarly journals Academic Writing: A Discipline or Disciplines?

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-143
Author(s):  
I. M. Zashikhina
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Problem Situation ◽  
Specific Product ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Text Genre ◽  
The Media ◽  
Russian Education

In the last five years, the discipline “Academic Writing” in one form or another has become part of the programs of many Russian universities. The goal of the discipline is the achievement of academic literacy. Within the framework of state policy in education and the need to increase publication activity, the discipline should teach students, graduate students and researchers to write a scientific article in accordance with the requirements of highly rated journals. In Russian education, the model of teaching academic writing was adopted from Western educational discourse. Since the 2010s, university teachers introduce courses, focusing on the experience of Western colleagues and sharing the results achieved. Researchers of academic writing point out a number of problems in teaching students. It is noted that students experience difficulties in mastering the competencies of the course, and teachers are not satisfied with the results. A number of articles appear in the media discourse, the authors of which express doubts about the appropriateness of practice of academic writing borrowed from the Western educational space. Indeed, in Western educational institutions, the development of academic writing skills begins at school, and then an extensive standard program is implemented at universities, covering various subject and cross-subject areas, within which the discipline is taught. In Russia, university students are confronted with a new field of knowledge and find themselves in a whirlpool of new rules, abilities, skills, competencies that they have to master in a short period of study a far as at the undergraduate level. The Western academic writing program is hardly applicable to the realities of Russian education. This article attempts to find the reason for the difficulties in teaching the discipline of academic writing to Russian students. The results of the study on three different groups of students studying the discipline of academic writing are presented. As a way out of a problem situation, the author proposes to divide the discipline into three levels, each of which covers a number of educational competencies necessary to create a specific product within the framework of the academic text genre.

scholarly journals Journal Writing: Effects on Students’ Writing Proficiency and Student and Teacher Attitudes

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-48
Author(s):  
Aynur Yurekli ◽  
Anita Afacan
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Journal Writing ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
Natural Activity ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Student Focus ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Academic Topic

In today’s world, writing is no longer a natural activity, especially for the younger generation. They look upon this activity as too complex, overwhelming and sometimes irrelevant. These attitudes are amplified when having to write in a second language. In EFL tertiary education, the expectations of academic achievement have become far greater than actual student capabilities. This study examined the possibility of using journal writing, both with and without an audience, as a way to address this issue. It is believed that by engaging students in the act of writing without the burden of an academic topic, it will indirectly impact students’ academic performance. Seventy-six undergraduate students in three groups (one control and two experimental) were involved. Data was collected in the form of pre-test and post-test writing, student focus group meetings and an interview with the instructor. From the study, it was found that dialogue journal writing with an audience contributed to an increase in the proficiency level of students, especially in terms of their organizational skills. In addition, students who undertook journal writing expressed gains in self-confidence, and were aware of the role of journal writing in this. Finally, journal writing was found to offer insight to the instructor with regard to what is happening under the surface of a class, and thus better address students’ needs. Keywords: EFL, academic writing, writing proficiency, journal writing

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