“…Comprising such issues as the level of academic writing (Karimnia, 2013), they do not know how to deal with grammatical structure, paraphrasing, and organizing ideas (Harmawan et al, 2023). They also have limited knowledge of writing for publication (Alimorad, 2018), time constraints and little experience in writing for publication (Cabanas, Bridgeman, & Hermes-DeSantis, 2018), institutional pressure to publish in reputable international journals (Jiang, Borg, & Borg, 2017) and being trapped to publish in predatory journals (Chavarro, Tang, & Ràfols, 2017). The challenge of writing for publication becomes higher because the Indonesian government issues a policy for scholarly publication in higher education.…”