{"title":"“Most good papers are published in English”","authors":"P. Strauss, Emmanuel Manalo","doi":"10.1075/jerpp.22009.str","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jerpp.22009.str","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Internationally, most prestigious and influential academic journals are published in English, and therefore a\u0000 mastery of the language is necessary to ensure engagement with the international scientific community. There is debate in the\u0000 literature as to whether the dominance of English might lead to the marginalization of contributions from academics for whom\u0000 English is a second language. The present study explores through interviews the insights of 11 humanities and social sciences\u0000 academics working at two Japanese universities ranked in the top 50 globally. The findings indicate that most of the participants\u0000 view English as the logical vehicle for reaching a wider audience for their research. Despite an acknowledgement that publishing\u0000 in English presents problems from both linguistic and pragmatic perspectives, these academics do not, on the whole, believe that\u0000 current standards need to be revisited. These issues are discussed in light of the changing realities of academic environments,\u0000 and the need to ensure accessible pathways for those who can and should be contributing to knowledge construction in the global\u0000 academy.","PeriodicalId":225017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115370687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tove Larsson, Henrik Kaatari, Tülay Dixon, Jesse Egbert
{"title":"Examining novice writers’ perceptions of formality","authors":"Tove Larsson, Henrik Kaatari, Tülay Dixon, Jesse Egbert","doi":"10.1075/jerpp.22010.lar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jerpp.22010.lar","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Adherence to standards pertaining to formality remains important for novice academic writers wishing to write\u0000 within the scientific community. However, due to its elusive nature, it may not be clear what “formal” really means. This study\u0000 investigates what affects novice writers’ perceptions of formality; specifically, it looks at the individual and combined impact\u0000 of register (journal articles vs. academic blog posts) and linguistic features with two variants (e.g., split vs. non-split\u0000 infinitives). The writers (n = 117) were presented with a series of binary choices between register-feature\u0000 combinations and asked to select the most formal combination. This resulted in a rank-ordered list showing which combinations they\u0000 perceived as more formal.\u0000 The results showed that the novice writers’ perceptions largely aligned with the expected rankings, in that\u0000 journal articles and the feature variant associated with this register tended to be perceived as more formal than the alternative.\u0000 These trends were especially strong for two of the features investigated: exclamation points and contractions. In bringing us one\u0000 step closer to understanding how novice writers think about formality, this study helps shed some light on the commonly used, but\u0000 less commonly defined, concept of formality.","PeriodicalId":225017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124723466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AI-mediated English for research publication purposes","authors":"Pejman Habibie, S. Starfield","doi":"10.1075/jerpp.00013.hab","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jerpp.00013.hab","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":225017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129075548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plagiarism and proper source use in Chinese writing","authors":"Yongyan Li","doi":"10.1075/jerpp.22006.li","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jerpp.22006.li","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":225017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123507239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who’s reading who?","authors":"M. Quinn","doi":"10.1075/jerpp.21019.qui","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jerpp.21019.qui","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The phenomenon of English ‘colonising’ academic publishing had been observed globally, so that English-speaking academics\u0000 rarely need to venture into non-English texts in order to build new knowledge. In the case of research in the education and language fields\u0000 in Timor-Leste, academic research and writing appears predominantly in Portuguese, with English as a significant second language of\u0000 research. In this case, researchers need to engage across these dominant languages in order to draw on the accumulated\u0000 research and knowledge about contexts where research is carried out. Not engaging with both these languages, and other local languages,\u0000 risks building incomplete knowledge of the Timorese context.\u0000 This paper presents the results of a citation analysis of academic research items written between 1999 and 2020. Findings\u0000 indicate that working only within a particular language is frequent among researchers writing in either Portuguese or English, often\u0000 ignoring research in the other dominant languages and in local languages. This study suggests that researchers within multilingual\u0000 countries need to read widely, considering a range of languages and sources. It also suggests the ways in which technological tools might\u0000 help alleviate some of the barriers to inter-language communication around research.","PeriodicalId":225017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122160641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Mu (2020): Understanding Chinese Multilingual Scholars’ Experiences of Writing and Publishing in English: A Social-Cognitive Perspective","authors":"Liwen Bing","doi":"10.1075/jerpp.21024.bin","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jerpp.21024.bin","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":225017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129061102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"English for Research Publication Purposes","authors":"Pejman Habibie, S. Starfield","doi":"10.1075/jerpp.00012.edi","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jerpp.00012.edi","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":225017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132226189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on the perceived longer-term impact of an ERPP course","authors":"James Corcoran","doi":"10.1075/jerpp.21015.cor","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jerpp.21015.cor","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Research-intensive universities in the global peripheries have begun to mount English for research publication purposes (ERPP) initiatives to increase plurilingual scholars’ publishing success. Though research into pedagogical initiatives is still limited, investigations of such programs can provide researchers with a greater understanding of the broader experiences and perspectives of scholars as well as the potential impact of interventions on course participants’ scholarly writing. Answering the call for more longitudinal work in ERPP, this article outlines a small-scale, qualitative investigation of the perceived impact of an intensive ERPP course at a Mexican university on two environmental scientists’ research writing five years following course completion. Data analysis included systematic review of participant CVs, as well as semi-structured interviews with two plurilingual EAL scientists and two ERPP practitioners connected to the ERPP course. Employing a critical plurilingual lens, this article discusses findings that not only outline the perceived impact of the intervention on these scientists’ research writing at different stages of their academic trajectories, but also highlight the plurilingual nature of their evolving scholarly practices. The article culminates with data-driven suggestions for plurilingual conceptualization and enactment of scholarly writing pedagogies, policies, and research agendas.","PeriodicalId":225017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121281293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Paltridge, Starfield & Tardy (2016): Ethnographic Perspectives on Academic Writing & Guillén-Galve & Bocanegra-Valle (2021): Ethnographies of Academic Writing Research: Theory, methods and interpretation","authors":"J. Tuck","doi":"10.1075/jerpp.00006.tuc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jerpp.00006.tuc","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":225017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132661494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mediation and uptake in manuscript revision","authors":"Oliver Shaw","doi":"10.1075/jerpp.21006.sha","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jerpp.21006.sha","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In line with recent interest in mediation as a widespread phenomenon in multilingual academic publication in English, this paper describes and exemplifies a method of researching production practices that is based on text histories. The evolution of rhetorical patterning in two published articles by established Spanish biomedical authors is used to explore the authors’ writing and how their texts were evaluated by an in-house language editor and later by journal gatekeepers. Semi-structured interviews with the two authors using talk around texts reveals commonalities and differences in author orientations towards mediation from discourse community members (journal gatekeepers) and the language professional (the in-house editor). Textual analysis as exemplified by a single rhetorically significant modification proposed by the language editor to each of the two manuscripts is used to compare the selective engagement of one author with the language editor’s contributions against the extensive reassessment of the other author in response to similar feedback. Discussion highlights the advantages and limitations of the modified text history and genre approach to understanding mediation and author orientations to mediation. Implications for textual mediation practices are discussed.","PeriodicalId":225017,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123013575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}