“Since Hadwiger's conjection … is still open”: Establishing a niche for research in discrete mathematics research article introductions

Moghaddasi, Shahin; Graves, Heather

doi:10.1016/j.esp.2016.09.003

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“…This study indicates that the majority of authors (33/40 RAIs) showed their novel contributions by presenting research gaps via the five types of research gap strategy. The result of this study confirms that presenting a research gap is claimed as a crucial step in establishing a niche (Lim, 2012;Moghaddasi & Graves, 2017;Shehzad;Swales, 1990Swales, , 2004. Meanwhile, in 7/40 RAIs in our corpus, the authors did not present research gaps to indicate their research niches.…”

Section: Author Biodatasupporting

confidence: 78%

“…The variation of multiple research gap strategies was applied cyclically in the ELT RAIs. It indicates that not only authors from mathematics used more than one strategy to indicate research gaps (Moghaddasi & Graves, 2017), but the ELT authors, in this study, also did the same, and on top of that, they used different research gap strategy types in an RAI. This finding corroborates the claim of Lim (2012) who suggests that a certain research gap strategy must be combined with the other types of research gap strategy to convince readers that a particular study is worth conducting.…”

Section: Author Biodatamentioning

confidence: 64%

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The authors’ research gap strategies in ELT research article introductions: Does Scopus journal quartile matter?

Arianto

Basthomi

2021

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Swales ' (1990) Creating a Research Space (CARS) model has spawned a large number of studies focusing on investigations of research article introductions (RAIs), and the reports have given meaningful contributions to guide novice and non-native authors in writing English RAIs. However, the investigation of authors' research gap strategies in RAIs has so far received little attention. Also, the previous investigations do not account for the way such strategies are applied across the Scopus journal quartiles (i.e., Q1, Q2, Q3, & Q4). Therefore, this study is undertaken to investigate the research gap strategies used by authors who published their research articles (RAs) in Scopus-indexed journals. The strategies found were, then, compared seen from the Scopus journal quartile lens. Forty RAs from eight Scopus-indexed journals in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) were randomly collected and analyzed using Swales ' (1990) framework, taking into account the insights proposed by Lim (2012) and Kwan, Chan, and Lam (2012). The findings reveal that the authors use five research gap strategies to present their research gaps in their ELT RAIs. The comparative analysis shows that there are differences and similarities in using research gap strategies across the quartiles. The findings of this study can assist non-native and novice authors to achieve visibility worldwide by giving closer attention to how to present research gaps using several research gap strategies in RAIs.

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The authors’ research gap strategies in ELT research article introductions: Does Scopus journal quartile matter?

Arianto

Basthomi

2021

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“…Recently, some previous studies (e.g., Abdolmalaki et al, 2019; M. AFFANDI ARIANTO, ALI SAUKAH, YAZID BASTHOMI, ANIK NUNUK WULYANI Afshar et al, 2018;Farnia & Barati, 2017) have considered the 1990 version to be the model used to identify the moves and steps in RA introductions. Meanwhile, some others have considered both models when investigating authors' rhetorical elements in RA introductions (Abdi & Sadeghi, 2018;Lim, 2012;Loi, 2010;Moghaddasi & Graves, 2017;Rahman, Darus, & Amir, 2017;Rubio, 2011;Wang & Yang, 2015). However, although many studies have investigated authors' RAs, particularly the abstract and introduction sections, and their reports have been used as guidelines for non-native and novice authors, there is still a need for deeper analysis on how authors present their research gaps in both sections.…”

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confidence: 99%

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

Arianto

Saukah

Basthomi

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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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“…In light of the considerable variation across disciplines observed in previous research, instruction aimed at students entering different fields may also need to introduce some of the abstract concepts associated with genre analysis, which students can then use as they examine and reflect on rhetorical practices in their own field. When introducing research writing to homogeneous classes of students entering the same discipline, instruction and pedagogical materials should ideally be more closely tailored to the specific practices of the discipline (for an example, see the description of M2 in discrete mathematics in Moghaddasi & Graves, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

A Comparison of Introductions in Japanese-Authored Japanese Articles, Japanese-Authored English Articles, and Articles by English Native Speakers

Mueller

2017

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According to Swales’s (2004) analysis of research articles (RAs), introductions generally involve three “moves,” with Move 1 (M1) establishing a research territory, Move 2 (M2) identifying a gap in existing research, and Move 3 (M3) discussing how the current research addresses this gap. Some cross-linguistic studies have suggested that Asian writers organize introductions differently from English writers, with less use of M2, less employment of direct criticism of previous research, and more cycling of moves. The current study examined 75 applied linguistics RAs written during the last decade: (a) in English by English native speakers, (b) in Japanese by Japanese native speakers, and (c) in English by Japanese native speakers. Analysis showed that the RAs written by these three groups exhibited only minor differences. The results suggest that Japanese-authored RAs and English native-speaker RAs are converging around an agreed-upon set of disciplinary expectations. Swales（2004)の文献研究における分析によると、序文には一般的に次の3つの「ムーブ（動き）」が含まれる。ムーブ1（M1）では研究領域について述べ、ムーブ2（M2）では先行研究では明らかでないことを特定し、ムーブ3（M3）では当該研究においてM2を如何に明らかにするかを示す。既存の交差言語的研究では、アジアの研究者による序文の構成は英語を母語とする研究者のそれとは異なり、M2や先行研究の直接的な批評が少なく、ムーブの繰り返しが多いことが示唆されている。本研究では、過去10年間に発表された応用言語学の研究論文75本を（a）英語を母語とする者の英語の論文、（b）日本語を母語とする者の日本語の論文、（c）日本語を母語とする者の英語の論文の3つに分け分析した。その結果、この3グループ間にはわずかな相違しか見られなかった。このことから、論文執筆者の母語が日本語か英語かに関わらず、双方によって書かれた研究論文は、合意された当該研究領域の期待の範囲内にまとまっていると示唆される。

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“Since Hadwiger's conjection … is still open”: Establishing a niche for research in discrete mathematics research article introductions

Cited by 24 publications

References 56 publications

The authors’ research gap strategies in ELT research article introductions: Does Scopus journal quartile matter?

The authors’ research gap strategies in ELT research article introductions: Does Scopus journal quartile matter?

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

A Comparison of Introductions in Japanese-Authored Japanese Articles, Japanese-Authored English Articles, and Articles by English Native Speakers

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