Writing research
article to a
peer reviewed publication
is a complex
process and involves
daunting communication with the referees, co-authors and editors.
Publication writing is more challenging than the usual communicative expression
yet; prolific writers often pass through the processes without too much
difficulty. Prolific writers draw on many writing strategies and one of the
strategies is by highlighting the research gap. Most of the time, the research
gaps highlighted are those related to the intended research niche and the
intended study. While the strategy has been used and taught in many research
writing instances, the strategy has been reported to be unpopular amongst the
non-native English research writers. Although many non-native English writers
are aware of the importance of the research gap, not much is known on how this
strategy is being practiced. In view of the underutilization of this strategy
and limited studies on the strategy in non-native context, this paper
investigates the use of this strategy in 150 research articles introductions in
Computer Science disciplines written by academicians in Malaysian
Universities. The finding of this study
confirmed that indicating research gap as a strategy is underutilized by the
research articles written in the corpus. In addition, this paper also described
four various ways on how this strategy is commonly used by the non-native
writers. The confirmation and authentic examples may be useful in the teaching
and learning of research article writing.
Author (s) Details
Ina
Suryani, Author (s) Details
Centre for Liberal Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia.
Norkhairi Ahmad,
Universiti Kuala Lumpur Malaysia France Institute, Malaysia
Azlan Abdul
Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Melaka, Malaysia
Badrul Hisham Ahmad
Academy of Language Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perlis, Malaysia.
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