This research explored sophomore students’ needs in learning English writing at the Faculty of Education for Language and Arts, IKIP Mataram. To achieve this purpose, classroom observation, questionnaire, and documentation were conducted to collect data. Data were then analyzed descriptively, and triangulation of data analysis was also carried out. Based on the result of the questionnaire survey, the findings show that the students’ proficiency level is at the elementary level. Moreover, the students’ needs in learning writing include picture-enriched materials, academic writing, tourism-related topics, cooperative learning in use, and theories-driven writing materials. The findings are used as foundation knowledge to develop writing materials for students.

This community service was aimed at training the teacher to be familiar with the usage of learning approach that can be applied in the time of covid-19. The training was conducted at Pondok Pesantren Arrahman attended by teachers of Madrasah Tsanawiyah, Aliyah, and SMK Darul Kamilin Bakan. To reach the goal of the program, the material and the application about the learning approach in detail for both online learning and blended learning was delivered to the participants. At the end of the program, evaluation was conducted by giving evaluation sheet to the participants to know whether or not the target of program is achieved. The response of the audience reveals that the program gave some good advantages for the participants as they have new knowledge about the learning approach applied in the time of covid-19. The participants also expected that the same program is conducted in the near future.

Menulis di jurnal nasional bereputasi dan internasional bereputasi merupakan salah satu cara meningkatkan kolaborasi dan koneksi antarpeniliti, namun masih dianggap sebagai sesuatu yang sulit untuk dilakukan. Pengabdian ini bertujuan untuk membantu peneliti (dosen pemula dan mahasiswa pascasarjana) menulis dan mempublikasikan artikel di jurnal nasional maupun internasional bereputasi secara efektif. Pengabdian ini menerapkan metode Virtual-Based Active Participatory Action. Peserta yang terlibat dalam kegiatan ini berjumlah 332 peserta melalui virtual meeting. 30 peserta terlibat dalam intensive meeting dan didesain dalam sesi Article Schools. Peserta intensive meeting dibatasi berdasarkan kualitas artikel yang direview oleh tim pengabdian. Berdasarkan hasil pelaksanaan pengabdian ini, bahwa dosen pemula dan mahasiswa pascasarjana dapat mengatasi kesulitan dalam menentukan kebaharuan (novelty) penelitian, topik atau isu-isu penelitian yang up-to-date secara nasional dan internasional, mempresentasikan review of related literature dalam artikel dengan baik, dan menentukan jurnal tempat publikasi yang tepat. Article Writing and Publication Strategies in National and International Journals: Efforts to Internationalize Higher Education Abstract Writing in reputable national and international journals is one of techniques to improve authors or researchers’ collaboration and connection but it is considered as a uneasy action to be done. This dedication aims to help researchers (novice lecturers and postgraduate students) write and publish articles in reputable national and international journals effectively. This service applies the Virtual-Based Active Participatory Action method. Participants involved in the service totaled 332 participants in virtual meetings. Thirty participants were engaged in intensive meetings and were designed in Article Schools sessions. Participants in this intensive meeting are limited based on the quality of the articles reviewed by the service team. Based on the results of this service, the findings show that the novice lecturers and the postgraduate students can diminish their difficulties in determining the novelty of their studies; their topics or research issues are up-to-date nationally and internationally; they overcome their problems in presenting reviews of related literature in articles; and determine the reputable publication journals.

This community service program aimed to improve teachers’ anthusiastic in SMKN 1 Sekotong, West Lombok to conduct articles to be published in national accredited and international journal. The method used in this program divided into three stages such as 1) early stage includes koordination between the program team with the principle of SMKN 1 Sekotong; 2) implementation stage includes scientific article training; and 3) evaluation stage that used as the overview of the next program. The materials in this program was presented mostly in term of describing the technique of writing good articles therefore they deserve to be published in national accredited or international journal. This community service program was conducted in SMKN 1 Sekotong which was followed by the pcinciple and 23 teachers. The conclusion of this program was there was an improvement of teachers’ anthusiastic to publish their scientific articles in national accredited and international journal.

Developing an English cohesive and coherent writing requires an effort of connecting ideas grammatically and semantically. To explore this, we carried out a research study by analyzing fifteen journal abstracts from international journals in ELT whose impact factors are within the top 10 in the field. The data showed that the abstracts make use of integrated pattern, not relying simply upon a single pattern. The findings also suggest ambiguous relationship between some clauses, many of which rather represent inductive relationship; therefore coding them into the three thematic progression patterns in Eggins (1994) seemed to be less accommodating. Further research on this subject would then require more sophisticated research theoretical framework.