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1. Academic Writing in a Global Context

   The Politics and Practices of Publishing in English

   By Theresa Lillis, Mary Jane Curry

   Academic Writing in a Global Context addresses the issue of the pressure on academics worldwide to produce their work in English in scholarly publishing, and why the growth of the use of academic English matters. Drawing on an eight year ‘text-ethnographic’ study of the experiences of fifty...

   Published April 25th 2010 by Routledge
2. Applied Linguistics Methods: A Reader

   Edited by Caroline Coffin, Theresa Lillis, Kieran O'Halloran

   Applied Linguistics Methods: A Reader presents the student with three contemporary approaches for investigating text, practices and contexts in which language-related problems are implicated. Divided into three parts, the reader focuses in turn on the different approaches, showing how each is...

   Published August 24th 2009 by Routledge
3. Redesigning English

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Sharon Goodman, David Graddol, Theresa Lillis

   This fully updated edition of Redesigning English explores the innovative uses of English from early manuscripts to post-colonial literature, creative writing and developments in new media. Focusing on how English has, and continues to evolve through its global status, there is a strong emphasis on...

   Published April 15th 2007 by Routledge
4. Teaching Academic Writing

   A Toolkit for Higher Education

   By Caroline Coffin, Mary Jane Curry, Sharon Goodman, Ann Hewings, Theresa Lillis, Joan Swann

   Student academic writing is at the heart of teaching and learning in higher education. Students are assessed largely by what they write, and need to learn both general academic conventions as well as disciplinary writing requirements in order to be successful in higher education.Teaching Academic...

   Published November 6th 2002 by Routledge
5. Student Writing

   Access, Regulation, Desire

   By Theresa M. Lillis

   Series: Literacies

   Student Writing presents an accessible and thought-provoking study of academic writing practices. Informed by 'composition' research from the US and 'academic literacies studies' from the UK, the book challenges current official discourse on writing as a 'skill'. Lillis argues for an approach which...

   Published April 25th 2001 by Routledge