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less on an academic journal, even if it is compared with ASEAN countries like

Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, Indonesia is left behind (sinarharapan.net,
2017).
Another policy made by the ministry of research, technology and
higher education in increasing the number of publication is requiring those
who is doing master and doctoral program in Indonesia to write and publish
their article before completing their study (Regulation of ministry of research,
technology, and higher education of Indonesia number 44 year 2015). Even
for undergraduate students, in particular universities, publishing a research
article are as one of their requirements to finish study based on local policy
of their home university. Some parties are for the policy, but some are against
the policy. The followers of the policy have claimed that the policy would
increase the number of research articles publication nationally and
internationally. However, the opponents of the policy claimed there are some
issues regarding a research article publication; they are no writing cultural
backgrounds, needing long-lasting exposure and internalization, lack of
academic writing sosialization, lack of institutional supports, and lack of
lecturers’ help due to higher power distance (Mukminin, Ali, & Ashari, 2015).
Regardless of the debate and problem on research publication, writing
a research article is unavoidable for academician. To keep writing is the based
way to face the challenge. Beside that, learning how to write and publish
article from the reputable authors is the answer as well, especially learning
how they integrate their reading strategies with academic writing. Since
reading is a key to enrich information and emerge an idea in generate a good
work in writing. Reading strategies determine the quality of an academic

writing (Al-shoram, 2014).
The importance of reading to compose an academic paper has
become the focus of several previous studies (Abu-Ake, 1997; Delaney, 2008;
Al- Mansour, 2014; Zhao & Hirvela, 2015). Despites the studies have been
conducted by previous researchers, studies on reading and writing
relationship to compose an academic writing like a research article are few.
Moreover, none of researchers explores about the reading strategies in
writing a research article. Hopefully, the result of the research will be essential
in increasing research publication in Indonesia.

B. METHODS
1. Design of the Study
The purpose of this study was to examine the reading strategies used
by informants in composing a research article. I adopted a qualitative case