English for specific purposes in the Arab world: Papers from the Summer Institute on ESP in the Arab World held at the University of Aston in Birmingham, in August 1983 [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 305 pages
• Publisher: Language Studies Unit, University of Aston in Birmingham (1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0903703181
• ISBN-13: 978-0903703185

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I am John Swales, now officially retired as a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where I was also Director of the English Language Institute for many years. I have written quite a lot of books, the first being "Writing Scientific English" in 1971 and the last "Incidents in an Educational Life" in 2009. Although retired, I keep professionally active and go to my office in the university several times a week. I am currently working on two new small advanced EAP textbooks with my regular co-author, Christine Feak. I still travel quite often to give talks and workshops about my main fields such as genre analysis and English academic discourse; for example, in 2009, I went to Brazil, China and Argentina on such ventures. My main hobbies are bird-watching and butterfly-watching; indeed, along with three others, I am currently working on a second edition of "The Birds of Washtenaw County, Michigan." My main publishers are the University of Michigan Press and Cambridge University Press.