Research Output
Description on research article introduction section by computer science researchers in Malaysian private universities
Perimeter description of research publications on drones by prolific engineering writers
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Publication
The competition and pursuit for better ranking within the academia drive a more
prevailing and urgent need to increase the number of research publications. This paper
examines twenty research article introduction sections written in English to identify the
rhetorical patterns and structures for better understanding on how the writers write. The
research articles are written by the Computer Science researchers in Malaysian private
universities. This paper presents the results of the move analysis on the rhetorical structure
of the selected text and the descriptions on how the moves were accomplished by the
writers. In general, the results show that the writers utilised the Create a Research Space
(CARS) model by Swales (2004). The three moves suggested in CARS model are establishing
the research territory, establishing the research niche and presenting the present work.
While all the three moves suggested in the model are fulfilled by the writers, some of the
rhetorical steps which are proposed as obligatory steps in CARS model are being
underutilised. Such underutilisation calls for more emphasis and employment on the
respective rhetorical steps. The respective rhetorical steps are presenting positive
justification, summarising methods, announcing principle outcomes and stating the value
of the present research.
Publication
Teaching technical writing to engineering researchers particularly post graduate students is a demanding and complex task. Often the challenge faced by the language instructor is in having inadequate understanding on students' expected writing output which is engineering research publication. While the language instructors may find the language use aspect manageable, it is the understanding on expected writing output for engineering discipline that is a challenge; therefore, supporting language module developers to understand those expected outputs is essential and needed for the advancement in language teaching. In view on the need for the description of the targeted output which is engineering publication, this study focuses on supporting the understanding of engineering research publication specifically on drones. This study is aimed to describe the perimeter of research publication on drones written by prolific engineering writers. This paper uses bibliometric analysis method which is based on identifying the core research and authors, as well as the works that cited them. This study examines 275 research publications indexed in SCOPUS database and also investigates 1947 research publications that cited the 275 publications as reference source. The findings show that the publications are mostly articles, conference papers and reviews deriving mostly from the US, China and the UK whereas the citing documents are mostly from China, the UK and the US. This paper presents the description on the perimeter for both groups. Such description provides a ready narrative to language instructors as well as ready narratives and guidance on writing/content dimension for young scholars embarking on writing scholarly articles on drone research.