The semiotic world that we inhabit (within and outside the academy) is fast changing in
terms of the resources that are used and the practices in which many engage. Yet the …

The author-audience interaction is an important issue in academic writing, but when
academic texts are translated, new issues regarding the author-audience relationship arise …

The paper explores the aspect of writer engagement through the emphasis of first person
pronoun 'we'in essay writing written by Chinese student-writers. The coding of independent …

Found at the beginning of most journal articles, abstract is an important part of the article. It
tends to be used to promote the journal article. Therefore, establishing writer-reader …

This article suggests that the notion of an educational 'trading zone'is an analytically helpful
way of describing a space in which ideas about learning and teaching are shared within and …