SUMMARY ACADEMIC WRITING AUTHOR Fahrus Zaman Fadhl

ENGLISH REVIEW: Journal of English Education                       p-ISSN 2301-7554, e-ISSN2541-3643

Volume 7, Issue 1, December 2018                               https://journal.uniku.ac.id/index.php/ERJEE

 

EXPLORING COGNITIVE PROCESS OF RESEARCH TOPIC SELECTION IN ACADEMIC WRITING

Fahrus Zaman Fadhly

Department of English Education Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Kuningan & Ph.D candidate of Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia Email: fahruszaman_pb15s3@mahasiswa.unj.ac.id

Emzir

Postgraduate Program, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia

E-mail: emzir.unj@unj.ac.id

Journal Article Resume by Dimas Anggara

 

     Abstract: The purpose of this research is to explore and reconstruct the cognitive processes experienced by Indonesian scientific writers in selecting research topic in academic writing. By using grounded theory approach, this research explored the Indonesian scientific writers’ cognitive processes and revealed eleven ways or approaches in finding and selecting research topics, i.e: institutional research road map, literature review, search before research, research trends in the world, national topics of research, interpretation of regulations, court decisions, pros and cons of actual cases or topics, discussion and research sharing method, exposure of controlled data, and looking for possible space for existing papers. Each expertise background dicipline has its own ways and approaches in research topic selection, but there is ‘red thread’: the selection and determination of research topics rests on literature review. This research endorses practical approaches to find out research topics containing novelties and state of the art of the research in each discipline.

Keywords: cognitive process; academic writing; research topic selection; Indonesian scientific writers; search before research.

   INTRODUCTION 

       It is a manifestation of efforts to construct the cognitive process of academic writing----selection of research topics inparticular. It was also formulated as an effort to contribute to the development of science especially in language education study through the context of proven academic writing. Various studies related to academic writing competence in foreign languages, especially English, generally take the context of the formal education environment as the realization of language teaching. These studies generally revolve around the achievement of teaching writing, related evaluations, to the utilization of certain models in teaching writing. At this point, the realm of research actually provides a broad space to be directed at other contexts that can also contribute to language education.

Reviewed from perspective of the creative process, the works of short stories, novels and poetry, there are five creative processes of fiction writing namely:incubation, insight, evaluation, and elaboration (Nuraeni & Fadhly 2016).

METHOD

This research uses grounded theory research design. Referring to the purpose of this study, which is to reconstruct the cognitive process in academic writing experienced by 3 Indonesian scientific writers, the grounded theory research design is deemed appropriate to be applied in this study. As stated by Creswell (2012) that grounded theory research design is used when researchers need a theory or explanation of a process. The activity of writing as a cognitive process is also explained by using a grounded theory approach.

The techniques for collecting cognitive process data in this academic paper are carried out through (1) observation, (2) interviews, (3) documents. Observation is done by directly observing the writing process of the scientific writings of the informants/speakers so that the whole construction of the cognitve process phenomena that occur/is done by them is obtained 

  

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

 

     Of the three informants interviewed, i.e.: DS with a background in Sociology of

education, indigenous education & multicultural education, ALH with a background in International law and telecommunications law, and FK with a background in nanomaterial carbon, adsorption, nanocomposite polymer. As their different experiences in choosing and determining research topics.

CONCLUSION

    From the research conducted it was concluded that the reconstruction of cognitive processes writing reputable international journal articles experienced by a number of Indonesian scientific writers had very important benefits for the development of cognitive models in writing especially academic writing. Reconstructing the cognitive processes experienced by Indonesian scientific writers is a fairly long cognitive journey and their cognitive experience will inspire other scientific writers and Indonesian researchers to increase the productivity of their publications. This research has been able to explore how Indonesian scientific writers in various disciplines express their cognitive experience so that their scientific works can be published in reputable international journals indexed in Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus.

REFERENCES

 Fadhly, F. Z., Emzir, E., & Lustyantie, N. (2018). Exploring cognitive process of research topic selection in academic writing. English Review: Journal of English Education 7(1), 157-166. doi: 10.25134/erjee.v7i1.1535.