Initial Approaches to Preparing a Manuscript for Academic Writing
Abstract
Academic writing is a specific form of writing employed in academic fields, such as social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. However, generating initial ideas for preparing a manuscript for academic writing can be a difficult and intricate endeavour, especially for novice authors. The objective of this study is to review an initial approach to preparing a manuscript for academic writing. In conclusion, this study suggests five (5) initial approaches to preparing a manuscript for academic writing, namely: (a) generate ideas from the results; (b) field of research as a perspective; (c) get a “helicopter view”; (d) write from a framework; and (e) avoid unfamiliar apps. This study suggests several recommendations for future research, namely to assess the efficacy of online writing communities and platforms, comprehend the influence of cultural variety, and investigate the impact of incorporating technology in academic writing.
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Baird, S. B., Kearney, K. S., & Nephew, A. (2020). Writing through theoretical frameworks in the doctoral classroom. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 11(3), 281-294. https://doi.org/10.1108/sgpe-02-2020-0013
Bazerman, C. (2019). Inscribing the world into knowledge: Data and evidence in disciplinary academic writing. In The 2023 Writing Research Across Borders VI (pp. 277-292). Norway: Norwegian University of Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.37514/int-b.2019.0421.2.13
Bjørkdahl, K., & Franco Duharte, A.S. (2022). Introduction: Ending the romance of academic flying. In K. Bjørkdahl, & A. S. Franco Duharte (Eds.), Academic flying and the means of communication (pp. 1-18). Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4911-0_1
Cañizares, J. C. M., & Rojas, J. C. (2022, March). Ideas generation and integration: A method for teamwork in a virtual environment. In I. Kallel, H. M. Kammoun & L. Hsair (Eds.), 2022 IEEE global engineering education conference (EDUCON) (pp. 1473-1479). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON52537.2022.9766556
Castelló, M. (2022). Research writing, What do we know and how to move forward. In M. Gustafsson & A. Eriksson (Eds.), Negotiating the intersections of writing and writing instruction (pp. 89-122). The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/int-b.2022.1466.2.04
Castillo-Martínez, I. M., & Ramírez-Montoya, M. S. (2021, January). Research competencies to develop academic reading and writing: A systematic literature review. In Frontiers in Education (Vol. 5, p. 576961). Frontiers Media SA. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.576961
Chuikova, E. S. (2021). Framework for academic writing culture development with language students. Social Sciences, 23(76), 68-77. https://doi.org/10.37313/2413-9645-2021-23-76-68-77
Chukwuere, J. E., & Chukwuere, P. C. (2020). Guide for Postgraduate Student Research and Publications: A Step-by-Step Approach. In P. Ngulube (Ed.), Handbook of research on connecting research methods for information science research (pp. 529-550). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1471-9.ch027
Dafouz, E. (2020). Undergraduate student academic writing in English-medium higher education: Explorations through the ROAD-MAPPING lens. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 46, 100888. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2020.100888
De Coster, E. (2020). Envisioning student work: Writing before research and its impact on the reference process. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 46(5), 102153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2020.102153
Dudnik, L. V., & Putilovskaya, T. S. (2020). Educational paradigm of academic writing. Higher Education in Russia, 29(1), 88-97. https://doi.org/10.31992/0869-3617-2020-29-1-88-97
Eriksson, D. (2023). The art and science of scholarly writing: Framing symmetry of specificity beyond IMRAD. European Business Review. https://doi.org/10.1108/ebr-01-2023-0004
Guo, H., & Laidlaw, D. H. (2018). Topic-based exploration and embedded visualizations for research idea generation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 26(3), 1592-1607. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2018.2873011
Hayes, C. L. (2021). The research prospectus in first-year writing (and beyond): Teaching writing for transfer. Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.31719/PJAW.V5I2.63
Jezhny, K. A., & Bapir, N. S. M. (2021). The assessment of university students knowledge on academic writing. Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 25(1), 265-278. https://doi.org/10.21271/zjhs.25.1.15
Jiang, F. K., & Hyland, K. (2020). Prescription and reality in advanced academic writing. Ibérica, (39), 14-42. https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-2784.39.14
Johnson, G. J. (2021). Getting there from here in a timely and effective manner: Editorial, volume 8, part 3. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 8(3), i-xiii. https://doi.org/10.31273/EIRJ.V8I3.836
Lerma-Noriega, C. A., Flores-Palacios, M. L., & Rebolledo-Mendez, G. (2020). In A. Mikroyannidis, M. Chang & S. White (Eds.), Proceedings of the12th international conference on mobile, hybrid, and on-line learning (eLmL2020) (pp. 1-4). Spain: IARIA.
Negretti, R., & McGrath, L. (2022). Setting the stage (s) for English for research and publication purposes: Authors, audiences, and learning the craft. Ibérica, (43), 7-26. https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-2784.43.13.7
Rabbi, S. (2020). Mapping rhetorical knowledge in advanced academic writers: The affordances of a transactional framework to disciplinary communication. Across the Disciplines, 17(3/4), 69-91. https://doi.org/10.37514/ATDJ.2020.17.3.03
Reddy, C. D. (2023). A framework of rhetorical moves designed to scaffold the research proposal development process. International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 18, 077-097. https://doi.org/10.28945/5088
Roald, G. M., Wallin, P., Hybertsen, I. D., & M. Stenøien, J. (2021). Learning from contrasts: First-year students writing themselves into academic literacy. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 45(6), 758-770. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2020.1813264
Sansom, R. (2019). “Doing research”: Understanding the different types of peer-reviewed articles. Voice and Speech Review, 13(3), 259-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/23268263.2019.1668102
Sulaiman, S. (2022). Students’ ways of understanding academic writing. Journal of General Education and Humanities, 1(4), 163-174. https://doi.org/10.58421/gehu.v1i4.32
van Broekhoven, K., Belfi, B., Hocking, I., & van der Velden, R. (2020). Fostering university students’ idea generation and idea evaluation skills with a cognitive-based creativity training. Creativity. Theories–Research-Applications, 7(2), 284-308. https://doi.org/10.2478/ctra-2020-0015
Vijai, C., Natarajan, K., & Elayaraja, M. (2019). Citation tools and reference management software for academic writing. GIS Business, 14(6), 586-596. https://doi.org/10.26643/gis.v14i6.14788
Wahyuni, S. E., & Inayati, N. (2020). The problems of generating ideas faced by English language students in research proposal writing. Pioneer: Journal of Language and Literature, 12(2), 88-102. https://doi.org/10.36841/pioneer.v12i2.633
Weber-Wulff, D. (2019). Plagiarism detectors are a crutch, and a problem. Nature, 567(7749), 435-436. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00893-5
Wei, J., Carter, S., & Laurs, D. (2019). Handling the loss of innocence: First-time exchange of writing and feedback in doctoral supervision. Higher Education Research & Development, 38(1), 157-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2018.1541074
Published
2024-03-01
How to Cite
TUMIRAN, Mohd Amzari.
Initial Approaches to Preparing a Manuscript for Academic Writing.
Asian Journal of Research in Education and Social Sciences, [S.l.], v. 6, n. 1, p. 140-147, mar. 2024.
Available at: <https://myjms.mohe.gov.my/index.php/ajress/article/view/25962>. Date accessed: 04 oct. 2024.
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