Resume of International Journal

Resume of  International Journal

Exploring Cognitive Process of  Research Topic Selection in Academic  Writing

Volume 7, Issue 1, December 2018

EXPLORING COGNITIVE PROCESS OF RESEARCH TOPIC SELECTION IN ACADEMIC WRITING

By Fahruz Zaman Fadhly, Emzir and Ninuk Lustyanie

Reviewer : Rina Risnawati (20180410026)

Research Purpose

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. This research endorses practical approaches to find out research topics containing novelties and state of the art of the research in each discipline.

Background

This research shows us the processes in writing international article start from 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. This present research is expected to bring novelty in identifying the cognitive processes of research topics selection experienced by the author who have been tested.

Method

            This research involving three Indonesian scientists, they are Didin Saripudin with a background in sociology of education, indigeneous education & multiculural education,  Atip Latiful Hayat wiith a background in nanomaterial carbon, adsorption & nanocomposite polymer and Dr. Fitri Khaerunnisa. The research was conducted in Bandung based on the place of residence and/or campus teaching resource.  The writer use qualitative approach with three techniques, there are observation, interviews and documents.

            This research uses grounded theory research design. Grounded theory (GT) is a systematic methodology in the social sciences involving the construction of theories through methodological gathering and analysis of data. There are eight procedures in grounded theory research; determine whether grounded theory research design is in accodance with research problems; identify the cognitive processes that want to be studied; obtain permission and access to conduct research; conduct theoretical sampling; data coding; using selective coding and developing theory; validating theory; develop a grounded theory research report.

Result

            This research resulted eleven cognitive proccess of research topic, there are; research road map; previous studies by conducting literature review; ‘research before research’ activity; observations of ‘research trends’ in the world; national research topics of Indonesian ministry of research, technology and higher education; interpretation of regulations; inspired by courts decisions; inspired by the presence of actual cases or topics that are becoming public discourse; through research discussion and sharing; determination of  research topics resulting from exposure to controlled data so that novelty is found; determination of research topics as results from the search for possibility of the existing papers.

Conclusion

            From the research we can conclude that the reconstruction of cognitive processes writing reputable international journal articles 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 experienced by Indonesian scientific writers is a fairly long cognitive journey and their cognitive experience will inspire other scientific writers and Indonesian researches to increase the productivity of their publications. This rsearch has been able to explore how Indonesian scientific writers in various disciplines express their cognitive experience so that their scientific works can be published in reputable international journals indexed in Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus.