EAP practitioners in advanced courses have often focused on assisting junior scholars who are non-native speakers of English with their attempts to publish in English. Today, however, university administrators increasingly rely on post-publication data such as citation records. We therefore suggest that identifying heavily cited and largely…

This paper discusses the "John Swales Conference Corpus" (JSCC), which contains the lectures and discussion sessions from an applied linguistics conference held in 2006 at the University of Michigan. This corpus constitutes a useful resource in that it provides insights into the language of a narrowly defined academic community. Moreover, it spans…

Explores competing pressures toward English for specific purposes accommodation to institutional exigencies and to a critical response to those exigencies. Discussion focuses on the design and implementation of an English for academic purposes course for a master's of Architecture students at a U.S. university. (Author/VWL)

In a dialogic essay, the authors reflect on aspects of their two professional lives in the field of English for special purposes (ESP), discussing their initial reactions to each other as authors, describing how they came to co-edit the present journal, providing personal and selective impressions of each other's careers, and summarizing currently…

Comments on a translation of a poultice transcription, believed to be at least 4000 years old. The tablet suggests that the history of one distinctive linguistic feature of technical writing is much older than previously imagined. (three references) (Author/CK)

Reviews the role of textbooks for increased understanding of academic writing, arguing they are not appreciated. The dampening effects of introductory college textbooks, a reluctance to look beyond the student audience, and the commercial motive are reasons for rejection. Yet textbooks should not be excluded from research-process genres as they…