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English in Today's Research World
Volumes in the Revised and Expanded Editions of English in Today's Research World
John Swales and Chris Feak first started putting together the book that became English in Today's Research World: A Writing Guide (henceforth ETRW) in early 1998. The book was largely based on teaching materials they had been developing through the 1990s for advanced courses in dissertation writing and writing for publication at the University of Michigan. Ten years later, that "research world" and our understanding of its texts and discourses have both changed considerably. This revised and expanded series of volumes is an attempt to respond to those changes. It also attempts to respond to reactions to ETRW that have come from instructors and users and that have reached us directly, or through our editor at the University of Michigan Press. One consistent feature of these comments has been that ETRW is somewhat unwieldy because it contains too many disparate topics. In thinking about a second edition, therefore, we have made the radical decision to break the original book into several small volumes; in addition, we offer a volume principally designed for instructors and tutors of research English and for those who wish to enter this growing field of specialization. We hope in this way that instructors or independent researcher-users can choose those volumes that are most directly relevant to their own situations at any particular time.
In this new venture, Swales and Feak have revised—often extensively—material from the original textbook, deleting texts and activities that they felt did not work so well and adding new material, at least partly in response to the developments in the research world. One concept, however, that was retained from previous textbooks is in-depth examinations of specific language options at what seem particularly appropriate points.
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Volume 1, Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts |
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Volume 2, Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review |
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Volume 3, Creating Contexts: Writing Introductions across Genres |
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Volume 4, Navigating Academia: Writing Supporting Genres |