“Indicating a Research Gap” in Computer Science Research Article Introductions by Non-Native English Writers

Suryani, Ina; Yacob, Aizan; Aziz, Noor Hashima Abd

doi:10.5539/ass.v11n28p293

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“…Although extending the studies of other researchers can create a space for further research (Robinson et al, 2011;Shehzad, 2008;Suryani et al, 2015), it can be better if authors have arguments or give some rationale before stating the need to extend the studies. They may identify the limitations of past studies, for instance in the methodology (i.e., choosing more appropriate tools to collect and analyze the data).…”

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“…The students' understanding of a research gap might be due to their background knowledge and experience. The introduction of a research gap had been taught by their lecturers in the course of academic writing (Suryani et al, 2015), and they presented research gap(s) in their respective RAs as a compulsory step in establishing a niche (Swales, 1990(Swales, , 2004.…”

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“…Under the previous studies, the investigation of authors' research gap strategies so far has received little attention since only limited studies has been conducted (Chen & Li, 2019;Lim, 2012;Suryani, Yacob, & Aziz, 2015). In response to a call for studies focusing on authors' research gap strategies in other disciplines (Lim, 2012) and considering what has been barely explored in the current body of knowledge, this study investigated Indonesian doctoral students' strategies for presenting research gaps in their ELT RA abstracts and introductions.…”

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Previous studies have several limitations …: Indonesian Doctoral Students’, Indonesian Academics’, and International Authors’ Research Gap Strategies in ELT Research Article Abstracts and Introductions

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Presenting research gap(s) in a research article (RA), particularly in the abstract and introduction, should be considered by authors, since it functions to show the novelty of the research. As there have been limited studies on the possible variations in authors' research gap strategies and the problems in identifying research gaps, this mixed-method study aimed to fill the gaps. Using genre analysis, this study compared the use of research gap strategies in English Language Teaching (ELT) RA abstracts and introductions by three groups of authors, namely, Indonesian doctoral students, Indonesian academics, and international authors. The results of the quantitative analysis in this study indicated that the three groups share similarities and differences in using the types of research gap strategy in their ELT RA abstracts and introductions. Then, the qualitative analysis using semi-structured interviews with ten doctoral students revealed some problems encountered by them in identifying research gaps during research activities. Finally, this study demonstrates the extent to which our findings have theoretical and practical implications concerning the use of strategies in presenting research gaps in RAs.

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Previous studies have several limitations …: Indonesian Doctoral Students’, Indonesian Academics’, and International Authors’ Research Gap Strategies in ELT Research Article Abstracts and Introductions

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“…Among limited studies on writers' strategy in establishing an RG in their article introduction are those conducted by Lim (2012), Suryani et al (2015), Müeller-Bloch and Kranz (2015), Chen and Li (2019) and Arianto et al (2021). Lim (2012) found that compared to writers in Educational Psychology, Second Language Writing, and Biochemistry, more writers in the field of Management indicated their RGs in their article introductions.…”

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Research gap strategies in article introductions of different rank applied linguistics journals

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2023

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Research gap (RG) becomes an important rhetorical work in research article introductions in all fields, especially in a competitive research publication atmosphere. A research article (RA) submitted to a reputable journal may be rejected because the writers fail to show the ‘niche’ in reviewing previous relevant studies to justify their research project. This research aims to find how writers in Applied Linguistics (AL) published in international journals of different quality in terms of their quartile value address the novelty in their journal article introductions. Forty articles were selected from eight different reputable international journals in AL of different tiers for the corpus of this study. The content analysis method under the umbrella of the qualitative approach was applied in the data collection and analysis. Six RG strategies, as suggested by Arianto et al. (2021), were used as a model for analysis and then the linguistic features used by the writers in realizing the RGs. The results show that among the six different RG strategies, the most frequently used by international writers are Strategy 2 (inadequate research) and Strategy 4 (contradictive/conflicting evidence). Among the four groups of RAs, those published in Quartile 1 journals used the most frequent strategies. The frequent linguistic features used by international writers are adversative conjunctions and adjective-modifying nouns to signal their RG strategies. To improve the quality of an article introduction, writers, especially novice writers, should use multiple strategies with the appropriate linguistic features.

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“…The findings of the study have implications for research article writers to improve their article introductions. Suryani et al (2015) investigated the use of the strategy of indicating research gap 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‖ is underutilized by the Malaysians.…”

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“Indicating a Research Gap” in Computer Science Research Article Introductions by Non-Native English Writers

Cited by 6 publications

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Previous studies have several limitations …: Indonesian Doctoral Students’, Indonesian Academics’, and International Authors’ Research Gap Strategies in ELT Research Article Abstracts and Introductions

Previous studies have several limitations …: Indonesian Doctoral Students’, Indonesian Academics’, and International Authors’ Research Gap Strategies in ELT Research Article Abstracts and Introductions

Research gap strategies in article introductions of different rank applied linguistics journals

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