Academic Writing in a Second or Foreign Language: Issues and Challenges Facing ESL/Efl Academic Writers in Higher Education Contexts

Acknowledgements Contributors Chapter 1. Introduction: The Issues and Challenges Facing Academic Writers from ESL / EFL Contexts: An Overrview, Ramona Tang Part I: Learning to Write for Academic Purposes Chapter 2. Identifying and Addressing Challenges to International Publication Success for EFL Science Researchers: Implementing an integrated training package in China, Margaret Cargill & Patrick O'Connor Chapter 3. Text and Corpus Work, EAP Writing, and Language Learners, Giuliana Diani Chapter 4. The Impact of Experience and Beliefs on Chinese EFL Student Writers' Feedback Preferences, Guangwei Hu & Hongwei Ren Chapter 5. Thesis and Dissertation Writing: Moving beyond the text, Brian Paltridge & Lindy Woodrow Part II: Features of ESL/EFL Learner Discourses Chapter 6. The Challenges of Writing a Successful Thesis Conclusion, Jo Lewkowicz Chapter 7. EFL / ESL Writers and the Use of Shell Nouns, Hilary Nesi & Emma Moreton Chapter 8. Writing in Tables and Lists: A study of Chinese students' undergraduate assignments in UK universities, Maria Leedham Part III: Identity Work and Professional Opportunities in Academic Writing Chapter 9. Writing and Researching Between and Beyond the Labels, Hanako Okada & Christine Pearson Casanave Chapter 10. Identity Without the 'I': A study of citation sequences and writer identity in literature review sections of dissertations, Suganthi John Chapter 11. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Challenges and opportunities for scholars from ESL / EFL backgrounds, Ramona Tang Afterword, English Medium Writing for Academic Purposes: foundational Categories, Certainty and Contingency Theresa Lillis Index

Ramona Tang is Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Singapore.

This finely-edited and timely collection represents a splendid analysis of issues and challenges facing ESL/EFL academic writers at textual and sociocultural levels. It achieves this by profiling wide-ranging geographical and learning contexts and presenting a kaleidoscope of research topics and approaches. Without doubt, the book will remain a landmark anthology and a standard citation in research on ESL/EFL academic writing in years to come. -- Yongyan Li, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Hong Kong, PRC Ramona Tang has assembled a collection of chapters that brings together a wealth of practical knowledge and experience of teaching and researching academic writing, together with insightful discussion of the position of and practices that surround English in higher education and academia more generally. This book captures the breadth of current thinking around academic writing and will be invaluable for practitioners and researchers. -- Ann Hewings, Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication, The Open University, UK Overall, this collection has brought to the fore a wide range of topics under the theme of 'academic writing in a second or foreign language' for the sake of both scholars under pressure to publish in the medium of English (Lillis, 2006) and tertiary-level students from non-English-speaking backgrounds facing L2 writing difficulties (Kroll, 2003). Diverse in research topics, sites, participants, methodologies and approaches, this volume should prove to be of great use to academic writers, especially non-native English students and scholars, and can provide insightful teaching implications for EAP instructors as well. - Nana Xu is a graduate student majoring in second language acquisition in the English language department at Nankai University. Her research interests focus on classroom reticence and self-regulated language learning. -- Linguist highly interesting for academics engaged in research on the real world academic practices of