Introduction, Christopher N. Candlin and Ken HylandSECTION ONE: EXPRESSION: FOCUS ON TEXT1. Integrating products, processes, purposes and participants in professional writing, Vijay K. Bhatia2. Interaction in writing: principles and problems, Greg Myers3. Writing as academic literacies: understanding textual practices in higher education, Mary R. Lea and Brian StreetSECTION TWO: INTERPRETATION: FOCUS ON PROCESS4. Writing and information design of healthcare materials, Patricia Wright5. Disciplinary discourses: writer stance in research articles, Ken Hyland6. Writing as an intercultural process, Ian G. MalcolmSECTION THREE: EXPLANATION: FOCUS ON RESEARCH7. Informal elements in English academic writing: threats or opportunities for advanced non-native speakers?, Yu-Ying Chang and John M. Swales8. Researching the writer-reader relationship, Roz Ivanic and Sue Weldon9. Engaging with challenges of interdiscursivity in academic writing: researchers, students and tutors, Christopher N Candlin and Guenter A PlumSECTION FOUR: REALISATION: FOCUS ON PRAXIS10. Lexical thickets and electronic gateways: making text accessible by novice writers, John Milton11. The writing-talking cure: an ethnography of record-speech events in a psychiatric hospital, Robert J. Barrett12. Why? I thought we'd talked about it before: collaborative writing in a professional workplace setting, Sandra Gollin