Negotiating the Intersections of Writing and Writing Instruction: Proceedings from the 2019 Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing

Expanding on their presentations at the 10th conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), the contributors to this peer-reviewed edited collection explore and reflect on the conference theme Academic Writing at Intersections – Interdisciplinarity, Genre Hybridization, Multilingualism, Digitalization, and Interculturality. The chapters focus on the choices we face as teachers of academic writing and, indeed, as writers who seek publication as we stand at these critical intersections. Key issues explored in the collection involve the challenges posed by new and emerging technologies, the complexity of approaches to supervision, questions surrounding the scaffolding of writing processes, strategies for navigating complex administrative contexts and structures, and strategies for addressing the translingual contexts most EATAW members—and most teachers of writing—face. The collection concludes with reflections from researchers associated with EATAW and related organizations.

Magnus Gustafsson is associate professor of Academic Writing and Communication in the Disciplines at the Department of Communication and Learning in Science at Chalmers University of Technology. His main research interests are within the fields of writing studies, integration of content and language, and higher education pedagogy. An EATAW member since 2007, he chaired the association from 2011 to 2017 and is the current treasurer. He is a co-editor of Journal of Academic Writing. He is also a series editor at the WAC Clearinghouse for International Exchanges on the Study of Writing.

Andreas Eriksson is associate professor of Academic Writing and Communication in the Disciplines at Chalmers University of Technology, where he also serves as head of the Division for Language and Communication at the Department of Communication and Learning in Science. His main research interests are within the fields of writing research, writing pedagogy and the integration of content and language in higher education (ICLHE). He has been an active member of the EATAW community since 2009. He has also served as a reviewer for Journal of Academic Writing and guest edited a special issue for the journal.