Students' technological literacy to improve academic writing and publication quality

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Tedi Supriyadi, Entan Saptani, Anin Rukmana, Ayi Suherman, Muhammad Nur Alif, Nan Rahminawati

2020 Universal Journal of Educational Research Vol. 8 Issue 11B Article Cited by 14 SDG 4 Quartile

Abstract

Writing is an academic culture to be developed in higher education environment. Along with its development, the distribution of the academic works goes beyond geographic barriers, hence, making it easier for researchers to explore and obtain material for literature review. However, these conveniences are not in line with the students' ability to publish their academic writing. Thus, this research aims at identifying ways to improve students' technological literacy to increase the number of academic papers in reputable publications and reporting the collaboration results in increasing the number of student publications. Action Research was chosen as the research design, which was done by involving 63 students of a university in Sumedang Regency, consisting of 23 female students and 40 male students coming from various regions in West Java, Indonesia. The findings showed that the students' weaknesses in writing were in its originality, cited references that were not representative and credible, and the inconsistency between in-text citation and reference list. Then, this research employed seven critical steps to publish academic writing: (1) Introduce and use of technological literacy, (2) search of journals for publication, (3) writing assistance, (4) article editing, (5) similarity check, (6) journal submission, and (7) final revision assistance. These steps were found to increase the number of student publications by 84.12%. Hence, higher education institutions in Indonesia are suggested to increase the publication numbers to enhance technology information-based academic culture. © 2020 by authors.

Affiliations

Physical Education Primary School Teacher Education Study Program, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia; Department of Early Childhood Education, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, Universitas Islam Bandung, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia

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