English for Professional and Academic Purposes

This book was rewarded with the 3rd Edition of the “Enrique Alcaraz Research Award” delivered by AELFE (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos)."Collectively and individually, the articles will interest several groups of readers: researchers, teachers, teacher educators and materials designers. Researchers can exam-ine a range of methods: genre analysis and contrastive rhetoric most frequently, but also corpus linguistics and textual analysis and others. For more depth, references to further sources are scattered throughout the articles. … The volume is recommended both to teachers who are interested in the applications of the research findings and to discourse analysts who could borrow and build on the steps used by researchers to reach their findings." - in: Discourse Studies 13(5)"In conclusion, the volume provides a remarkable collection of EPAP discourse studies in a variety of disciplines and geographical contexts. The readers of the volume will also appreciate that the authors discuss ideas for future EPAP research. The book will be of primary interest to EPAP professionals and discourse analysts. Because of the book’s specific focus on teaching written genres, it will also be of great value to ESL/EFL teachers working with writers in academic and professional settings … The volume’s chapters offer a variety of perspectives on the research and teaching of EPAP by focusing on a range of written genres (e.g., abstracts, essays, and corporate value statements), using different methodological approaches (e.g., corpus linguistics, textual, and rhetorical analyses), and describing successful teaching practices." - in: Journal of English for Academic Purposes 10 (2011)"The topics and approaches covered in the volume, the possibilities of connections and dialogues, and many other rich details in the book have made this volume a very enlightening display of current EPAP research and a helpful resource book for readers to generate their own research and practice on the topics covered in the volume and beyond." - in: English for Specific Purposes 30 (2011)"very inspiring … thought-provoking… very valuable to gain awareness on the role current discourse analysis is having in the disentangling and unlocking of community practices and conventions, in view of a more informed, righteous and effective communication." - in: Ibérica 21 (2011)"In a nutshell, English for Professional and Academic Purposes proves to be a rigorous and comprehensive book that offers new insights and outlooks in ESP recent studies. The range of the questions explored and the suitability of the methods used are very likely to arouse the interest both of ESP practitioners and applied linguists alike." - in: RESLA - Spanish Journal for Applied Linguistics 23 (2010)

• Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido, Juan C. Palmer-Silveira and Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez: Current trends in English for Professional and Academic PurposesDiscourse analysis of English for academic purposesDushyanthi Mendis: Formality in academic writing: The use/non-use of phrasal verbs in two varieties of EnglishCarmen Pérez-Llantada: The ‘dialectics of change’ as a facet of globalisation: Epistemic modality in academic writingFrançoise Salager-Meyer, María Ángeles Alcaraz Ariza and Maryelis Pabón Berbesí: Hidden influencers and the scholarly enterprise: A crosscultural/linguistic study of acknowledgements in medical research articlesAna I. Moreno: Researching into English for research publication purposes from an applied intercultural perspectiveDiscourse analysis of professional EnglishPhilip Shaw: Research reports in academic and industrial researchUlla M. Connor, Elizabeth M. Goering, Marianne S. Matthias and Robert Mac Neill: Information use and treatment adherence among patients with diabetesInger Askehave and Karen K. Zethsen: “Check it out” – The construction of patient empowerment in health promotion leafletsPilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich: Who “we” are: The construction of American corporate identity in the Corporate Values Statement genreEPAP pedagogyAna Bocanegra-Valle: Evaluating and designing materials for the ESP classroomJohn M. Swales and Christine B. Feak: From text to task: Putting research on abstracts to workRuth Breeze: Approaching the essay genre: A study in comparative pedagogyJulio Gimenez: Academic writing in the disciplines: Practices in nursing, midwifery and social workThomas Orr: English language education for science and engineering studentsNotes on contributors