University Writing in Central and Eastern Europe: Tradition, Transition, and Innovation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chitez, Mădălina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Doroholschi, Claudia Ioana (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kruse, Otto (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Salski, Łukasz (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Tucan, Dumitru (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Multilingual Education, 29
• Subjects: Language and education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Multilingualism.; Higher education.; International education .; Comparative education.; Language Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Higher Education.; International and Comparative Education.

This book explores specific issues related to academic writing provision in the post-communist countries in Eastern, Central and Southern Europe. Although they have different cultures and writing traditions, these countries share common features in what regards the development of higher education an...

Table of Contents:

• Preface; David R. Russell
• Introduction: Understanding Academic Writing in the Context of Central and Eastern European Higher Education; Claudia Doroholschi, Dumitru Tucan, Mădălina Chitez, and Otto Kruse
• Part I Academic Writing Provision in Central and Eastern Europe: Models, Directions, and Strategies
• A European Model for Writing Support; John Harbord
• Studying and Developing Local Writing Cultures: An Institutional Partnership Project Supporting Transition in Eastern Europe's Higher Education; Otto Kruse, Mădălina Chitez, Mira Bekar, Claudia Doroholschi, Tatyana Yakhontova
• Academic writing at Babeș-Bolyai University. A Case Study; Camelia Moraru, Mihaela Aluaș, Andrei Kelemen, Rodica Lung, Romana Emilia Cramarenco, Sonia Pavlenko, Christian Schuster, Cristina Bojan, Robert Balazsi
• Institutional Writing Support in Romania: Setting Up a Writing Center at the West University of Timișoara; Claudia Ioana Doroholschi
• Part II Research in Writing: Case Studies in L1
• Academic Writing in a Russian University Setting: Challenges and Perspectives; Irina Shchemeleva and Natalia Smirnova
• Reader Versus Writer Responsibility Revisited: a Polish-Russian Contrastive Approach; Łukasz Salski and Olga Dolgikh
• Perceptions About "Good Writing" and "Writing Competences" in Romanian Academic Writing Practices: A Questionnaire Study; Cristina Băniceru and Dumitru Tucan
• Research Articles as a Means of Communicating Science: Polish and Global Conventions; Aleksandra Makowska
• Part III Approaches in EFL Writing Research
• Corpus Linguistics Meets Academic Writing: Examples of Applications in the Romanian EFL Context; Mădălina Chitez
• Individual Differences and Micro-Argumentative Writing Skills in EFL: An Exploratory Study at a Hungarian University; Gyula Tankó and Kata Csizér
• In at the Deep End: The Struggles of First-Year Hungarian University Students Adapting to the Requirements of Written Academic Discourse in an EFL Context; Francis J. Prescott
• Assertion and Assertiveness in the Academic Writing of Polish EFL Speakers; Jacek Mydla and David Schauffler
• Extended Patchwriting in EFL Academic Writing of Hungarian Students: Signs and Possible Reasons; Katalin Doró
• Peer Review and Journal Writing in the Eyes of First-Year Students of English Studies: A Writing Course at the University of Łódź; Ola Majchrzak and Łukasz Salski
• An Analysis of Dissertation Abstracts Written by Non-Native English Speakers at a Serbian University: Differences and Similarities Across Disciplines; Marina Katic and Jelisaveta Safranj.