CURRENT AND FUTURE TREND OF RESEARCH IN ACADEMIC WRITING: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Journal of English Educational Study (JEES) Volume 7 Issue 1 May 2024 Page 112-121 E-ISSN:2655-0776 CURRENT AND FUTURE TREND OF RESEARCH IN ACADEMIC WRITING: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS Evi Karlina Ambarwati, Indah Purnama Dewi, Praditya Putri Utami, Nina Puspitaloka, Alvin Yahya Makarim Nazar Universitas Singaperbangsa Karawang , , , and Submitted: 2024-03-12 Accepted: 2024-03-25 Abstract: This study was a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the literature of Academic Writing in various higher education contexts and mapped the current state of the trend as well as identified gap for future research. There were 991 documents retrieved on Academic Writing in Higher Education from database citation index Scopus (2013 to 2022) under certain conditions. The documents were then analyzed using OpenRefine version 3.5.2, VOSviewer version 1.6.17 from Leiden University, Microsoft Excel and Tableu Desktop from the perspectives of the number of yearly publications, countries, authors, citation numbers, and keywords. The findings show that the number of publications on Academic Writing is generally growing.The research topics shows that academic writing instruction across classroom contexts reflect the 21st century life skills and learning through students’ active participation, i.e. peer assessment, peer learning, and selfregulation. Likewise, information, media and technology are instilled through e-learning and computer-aided instruction. Last, the functional view of grammar in academic writing establishes new research focus. Keywords: academic writing; bibliometric analysis; research trends INTRODUCTION Writing is an important skill in academic context. This is the case because writing is the primary communication method in academia (Craswell & Poore, 2011). Likewise, it is one of the most difficult skills for many students to master, either for L1 and L2 users of English (Bailey, 2014). Hence, teaching the skill requires proper attention. Efforts to illuminate teaching academic writing have been made in various classrooms across the globe that handbook for teaching academic writing for each context is mostly available, for example in English as a second language classroom (Paltridge et al., 2009), UK (Ganobcsik-Williams; 2017) and Europe (Björk et al., 2003). Many researches were also conducted to provide pedagogical support. Various aspects of academic writing are interesting to be researched. Studies were conducted on curriculum models in different classroom contexts, for example genre-based approach in Iran, Japan, Indonesia, UK and China (Ariyanfar & Mitchell, 2020; Nagao, 2019; Wijayanti et al., 2017; Wingate, 2012; X. Xu & Li, 2018); product-based approach in Iraq, Iran, and Malaysia (Abdulrahman & Kara, 2022; Naghdipour, 2016; Nordin & Mohammad, 2018; Selvaraj et al., 2019) as well as process approach in South Africa (Ngubane et al., 2020). Other 112 Ambarwati, et.al. Current.... Journal of English Educational Study (JEES) Volume 7 Issue 1 May 2024 Page 112-121 E-ISSN:2655-0776 researchers looked into the various aspect of feedback for improving students’ writing quality (Ferris et al., 2013; Truscott & Hsu, 2008). However, as with other aspects of life, the new global economy and 21st century society set a new direction for writing instruction. First, many academic writing classrooms instill the 21st century learning and life skills by allowing students to take more initiatives and participations about their writing skill. For example,studies investigated the application of self-regulated learning and metacognition theories to acquire academic writing skill(Chen et al., 2022; InanKaragul & Seker, 2021). Likewise, many writing classrooms provided many opportunities for students collaboration (Pham, 2021; Valizadeh, 2022). Last, students were given more social responsibility to provide feedback to their peers (Bürgermeister et al., 2021; Sunzuma et al., 2022). Next, information, media and technology skills creates the technology affordances in writing classroom. For example, studies investigated technology enhanced academic writing instruction in blended learning environment (Rahman et al., 2020; Scott et al., 2020)and flipped classroom(Fathi & Rahimi, 2022; Qader & Arslan, 2019). Various technological tools, such as Google Docs was also utilized to facilitate collaborative writing (Alharbi, 2020; Valizadeh, 2022)and feedback (Alharbi & Alqefari, 2021; Hoa & Lap, 2021). In regards to feedback, though, Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) is currently popular among students and instructors (Ambarwati, 2021; J. Xu & Zhang, 2022; Zhang & Hyland, 2018). Also, the issue of academic integrity which might result from the timely copy-paste access from the Internet’s open sources begin to rise (Ledwith & Rísquez, 2008; Pennycook, 2016; Walker, 2010). Therefore, considering the significant change in culture, politics, economy and technology development, this article seeks to provide an overview of the current situation and trends in academic writing studies based on database citation index Scopus from 2013 to 2022. Moreover, it aims to provide useful information for future academic writing research by means of data analysis visualization using VOSviewer version 1.6.17, OpenRefine version 3.5.2, Microsoft Excel and Tableu Desktop. Thus, the research questions are to be addressed in the present study: What is the bibliometric information regarding publications about academic writing, including the number of annual publication, authors, and citations?, Who are the most influential authors in the field of academic writing? And What are the publication trends in academic writing? METHOD Bibliometric analysis involves quantitative assessment of bibliographic materials by means of statistical methods (Broadus, 1987). This study employed bibliometric analysis of the literature on academic writing in post-secondary classroom context and mapped the current state 113 Ambarwati, et.al. Current.... Journal of English Educational Study (JEES) Volume 7 Issue 1 May 2024 Page 112-121 E-ISSN:2655-0776 of the field, prominent topics as well as predicted the future trend in the field. There were 3 phases involved, i.e. Data Collection, Data Visualization and Data Analysis (Figure 1). Figure 1. Bibliometric Analysis Method The documents for this study were selected from database citation index Scopus, one of the world’s largest and extensive scientific publication databases across numerous fields. The database was collected on 15 September 2022. There were 1954 sample documents extracted from the title-abstract keywords “academic writing” AND “higher education” OR university OR college OR “tertiary education”. Then, the documents were filtered by the time span of 2013 to 2022. Only article was chosen as the target document type. Finally, 991 documents were obtained. The documents cover various subject areas, i.e. social science (54.1%), arts and humanities (29.5%), computer science (3.5%) (...truncated)