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Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes - Volume 5, Issue 1-2, 2024
Volume 5, Issue 1-2, 2024
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Establishing researcher identity as an emerging scholar
Author(s): Melika Nouripp.: 5–30 (26)More LessAbstractBecoming a researcher not only involves the acts of contributing to the body of knowledge in a field but also constructing the image or identity of a researcher. Doctoral students who aim for positions within academia upon graduation see doctoral education as a phase in which they develop their research and publication skills. An existing body of literature in the field of writing has explored doctoral students’ experiences in research and publication focusing on the role of the external factors, such as mentoring, resource accessibility, issue of authority, and so on. Other studies have explored how various experiences facilitate or inhibit the development of research skills. However, less attention has been paid to the role of internal motivators or intrinsic factors in doctoral writing and how these factors relate to research work and research productivity. Using a narrative approach, this study explores the experiences of four doctoral students in developing a researcher identity, focusing on the challenges that they face, and the role of the doctoral program in shaping their researcher identity. This study offers insights into doctoral students’ training and advising by illustrating how research productivity can be enhanced at the doctoral level.
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From local to global
Author(s): Khulod Aljehanipp.: 31–59 (29)More LessAbstractThis study aimed to explore research publishing participation of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers at universities in Saudi Arabia, particularly regarding non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs). This study focuses on teachers’ motivations, the establishment of personal identity, and their emotions in local and international academic publishing. Based on 11 participant interviews, the challenges faced by NNESTs include linguistic and cultural factors alongside organisational and identity points of pressure, with effects such as anxiety and rejection. Achievement depends on external objectives such as career development and conducting research; however, as they progress from one level to another, they become driven by internal factors such as interest and passion. The outcomes underscore the need for enhanced institutional support for several learning interests, including allowing teachers to access global academic materials and resources. Resolving these issues may help promote an academic environment that highlights NNESTs in premier publications. This study calls for reforming current pedagogical practices to better support NNESTs and recommends future research focused on sustained engagement and indexed publication opportunities to support NNEST research paths more effectively.
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The evolution of sub-disciplinary linguistic trends
Author(s): Pedro Martín and Isabel León-Pérezpp.: 60–82 (23)More LessAbstractThis study examines, from a diachronic stand, the linguistic features of research article titles in a particular journal in the specific field of experimental medical biology, and how the titling trends of this sub-disciplinary community have evolved over time. Following a corpus-based textual approach, we have compiled a corpus of 360 titles published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine over the period 1940–2023. We have mainly focused on the analysis of the length of titles, their prevalent syntactic structures, the types of information elements that they contain, the use of promotional lexical items, and their frequency of occurrence. The findings revealed an increasing trend to write longer titles with more complex syntactic structures and more persuasive information elements. The nominal types that were prevalent in the first decades, indicating the research topic and describing the methods, have been replaced in more recent decades by verbal constructions which also report on the most salient results and/or conclusions, whose relevance is emphasised by the use of persuasive lexical items (boosters and hyperbolic language). These findings point to a major shift over the last few decades towards an increasing promotional slant of academic titling practices in the sub-discipline of experimental medical biology.
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10 tips for getting past desk screening and out to reviewers
Author(s): Cally Guerinpp.: 83–92 (10)More LessAbstractRecently I took on the role of executive editor of a journal, after contributing as a reviewer and associate editor for many years. As I’ve gradually come to see more and more of the “back end” of academic journals, it becomes clear that authors are often unaware of how decisions are made regarding their submissions. This piece is thus written from the perspective of an editor assessing submissions and making decisions on what to send out to review, and what to return to authors as unsuitable for the particular journal (that is, desk rejecting). So, rather than writing about research into publication, this Perspective piece comes from my own insider perspective as an academic journal editor. It’s conversational rather than strictly academic.
My perspective on research publication is informed from multiple directions. I have a professional background in teaching English for Academic Purposes to culturally and linguistically diverse international students and as an editor for academic texts. These days I’m a researcher developer in an Australian university where I teach PhD candidates about research writing; I review for academic journals; I edit an academic journal; I write about my own research – and I receive peer review that is not always flattering! I’m a monolingual Anglo-Australian woman, with all of the baggage and privilege that entails.
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The promising and problematic potential of generative AI as a leveler of the publishing playing field
Author(s): Diane Belcherpp.: 93–105 (13)More LessAbstractThis perspective paper considers the affordances and challenges of generative AI for linguaculturally diverse scholars in a still English-dominant academic publishing world. Chief among the questions examined is whether AI offers a viable path forward toward greater research publication equity but, at the same time, something much more fraught. In other words, the paper explores how promising the apparent equalizing potential of generative AI may be. Might, for example, generative AI offer a smoother path to visibility, but in so doing, actually make the uniqueness of diverse scholars’ contributions far less visible? The paradoxical potential of generative AI is discussed first in this paper by surveying, at this particular phase of AI development, some of the salient advantages of generative AI use for research prewriting, writing, and post-writing, that is, AI’s ability to assist with such essentials as idea generation, text development, and text refinement. The apparent democratizing advantages of AI for each of these major stages of research writing are then interrogated and problematized. The paper concludes with a brief speculative path forward.
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Review of Habibie & Hultgren (2022): The Inner World of Gatekeeping in Scholarly Publication
Author(s): Ana Bocanegra-Vallepp.: 106–112 (7)More LessThis article reviews The Inner World of Gatekeeping in Scholarly Publication
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Review of Demeter (2020): Academic Knowledge Production and the Global South: Questioning Inequality and Under-representation
Author(s): Gergő Hálópp.: 113–117 (5)More LessThis article reviews Academic Knowledge Production and the Global South: Questioning Inequality and Under-representation
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Review of Kohls & Casanave (2023): Perspectives on good writing in applied linguistics and TESOL
Author(s): Mokhira Ergasheva and Ulugbek Nurmukhamedovpp.: 118–124 (7)More LessThis article reviews Perspectives on good writing in applied linguistics and TESOL
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Review of Kuteeva (2023): Tension-Filled English at the Multilingual University: A Bakhtinian Perspective
Author(s): Hanna-Mari Pienimäkipp.: 125–129 (5)More LessThis article reviews Tension-Filled English at the Multilingual University: A Bakhtinian Perspective
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Review of McCulloch (2024): Novice LGBTQ+ scholars’ practices in writing for scholarly publication
Author(s): Chi Changpp.: 130–136 (7)More LessThis article reviews Novice LGBTQ+ scholars’ practices in writing for scholarly publication
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