English of Education Journal

Exploring Cognitive Process of Reasearch Topic Selection in Academic Writing

By. Fahruz Zaman Fadly
Year: 2018


  • DIRECTION 
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. 

  • METHOD
In the flowchart, this research shows the specific purpose of this research, which is breaking down cognitive processes in writing articles in reputable international journals since the topic selection, problem formulation, expressing tentative goals (thesis), selecting, collecting and determining bibliography, making notes and making the outline of the writing, pouring ideas into written language so that it became a coherent, systematic and reasoned initial draft composition, review, to edit academic writing and make it a final draft.


  • THE RESULT
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 process writing reputable international journal articels 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 process 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 tge 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 work can be published in reputable international journals index in web of science (WoS) and scopus.

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