Chapter 1 AVery Peculiar Practice Section one Writing Research and Genres Chapter 2 Researching Writing Chapter 3 Writing in the University: Education, Knowledge and Reputation Chapter 4 Genre-Based Pedagogies: A Social Response to Process Section two Interaction Academic Writing Chapter 5 Stance and Engagement: A Model of Interaction in Academic Discourse Chapter 6 Metadiscourse in Academic Writing: A Reappraisal Chapter 7 Community and Individuality: Performing Identity in Applied Linguistics Section Three Features Academic Writing Chapter 8 Humble Servants of the Discipline? Self-mention in Research Articles 181 Chapter 9 Academic Attribution: Citation and the Construction of Disciplinary Knowledge Chapter 10 Is There an "Academic Vocabulary"? Chapter 11 As Can Be Seen: Lexical Bundles and Disciplinary Variation Section Four Some Genres of Academic Writing Chapter 12 Dissertation Acknowledgements: The Anatomy of a Cinderella Genre Chapter 13 Construacting Proximity: Relating to Readers in Popular and Professional Science Chapter 14 The Presentation of Self in Scholarly Life: Identity and Marginalization in Academic Homepages Section Five Teaching Academic Writing Chapter 15 Nurturing Hedges in the ESP Curriculum Chapter 16 Specificity Revisited: How Far Should We Go Now? Chapter 17 Sugaring the Pill: Praise and Criticism inWritten Feedback Chapter 18 Conclusion: A Never-ending Story References Acknowledgement