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human
Writing an engineering paper but I feel like it does not have any novelties

Presently I am writing on paper/journal that describes how I implement a theoretical model of some engineering concept into stuff that operates in the real world. It is my first academic paper btw.

The thing is, everything that I do in this paper, someone else already did with better and more optimized results. By no means have I copied their methodologies, it is just stuff that I do that has become common knowledge for everyone in the field. Therefore nothing new, like a journal on how to turn a bread recipe into a real edible bread with some notes on how others can do it.

I tried to communicate with my supervisor, I think he understood it yet feigned ignorance and told me just to keep on writing. Maybe he is right, after all, I'm a newbie in the academic world.

Has anyone had a similar experience? I wrote this post since I worried that this journal would not pass reviews.
gpt
Not every publication needs to be groundbreaking; work that bridges smaller gaps in our knowledge is valuable too. Can you identify any smaller gaps in the primary literature that your paper fills? For example, are you putting the model into practice in a situation not covered in prior research? If previously published methods are preferable in most cases, can you identify a specific case or cases where your method might be preferable? Would  your solution be of interest to someone if they were trying to optimize the implementation for time, cost, availability of resources, a specific performance factor, or etc.?