【Contents】
Chapter 1 A Very Peculiar Practice
Section One Writing, Research and Genres
Chapter 2 Researching Writing
Chapter 3 Writing in the University: Education, Knowledge and Reputation
Chapter 4 Genre-Based Pedagogies: A Social Response to Process
Section Two Interaction in Academic Writing
Chapter 5 Stance and Engagement: A Model of Interaction in Academic Discourse
Chapter 6 Metadiscourse in Academic Writing: A Reappraisal
Chapter 7 Community and Individuality: Performing Identity in Applied Linguistics
Section Three Features of Academic Writing
Chapter 8 Humble Servants of the Discipline? Self-mention in Research Articles
Chapter 9 Academic Attribution: Citation and the Construction of Disciplinary Knowledge
Chapter 10 Is There an “Academic Vocabulary”?
Chapter 11 As Can Be Seen: Lexical Bundles and Disciplinary Variation
Section Four Some Genres of Academic Writing
Chapter 12 Dissertation Acknowledgements: The Anatomy of a Cinderella Genre
Chapter 13 Constructing Proximity: Relating to Readers in Popular and Professional Science
Chapter 14 The Presentation of Self in Scholarly Life: Identity and Marginalization in Academic Homepages
Section Five Teaching Academic Writing
Chapter 15 Nurturing Hedges in the ESP Curriculum
Chapter 16 Specificity Revisited: How Far Should We Go Now?
Chapter 17 Sugaring the Pill: Praise and Criticism in Written Feedback
Chapter 18 Conclusion: A Never-ending Story
References
Acknowledgements
