The Process of Writing Research Articles in English and Getting Published: A Case Study

Abstract

Getting published in indexed English journals is a rather long and challenging process for non-native academics that have to write in English. In this study, we interview four Turkish academics (two physicists and two civil engineers), who use English as a foreign language, and analyze the processes they undergo while writing research articles (RA) and striving to get them published. We also interview other four academics (a historian, a linguist, a sociologist and an educational scientist), who have no published works in indexed journals, to gain more insight about the difficulties entailed in getting published in English journals. In Turkey, it is a prerequisite to get published in indexed journals, most of which are English, in order to get a tenure position at Turkish universities. However, this process is much more difficult and demanding for those who have no US or UK background and who have had no formal education in writing of any kind. The interviews we conducted and the observation process hint that science and engineering articles have preset rules and conventions and that writing such articles is a mechanical process

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