Since academic writing as a discipline is relatively new in Eastern Europe, but currently plays an essential part in the development of higher education and the process of European integration, the volume aims to open discussion on academic writing in the region by addressing several issues such as the specific challenges in providing academic writing support at tertiary level in post-communist countries, the limitations and possibilities in implementing Western models of academic writing provision, or the complex interactions between writing in national languages and writing in a second language.

Preface; David R. Russell.- Introduction: Understanding Academic Writing in the Context of Central and Eastern European Higher Education; Claudia Doroholschi, Dumitru Tucan, Madalina 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, Madalina Chitez, Mira Bekar, Claudia Doroholschi, Tatyana Yakhontova.- Academic writing at Babe¿-Bolyai University. A Case Study; Camelia Moraru, Mihaela Aluä, 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 Timi¿oara; Claudia Ioana Doroholschi.- Part IIResearch 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; Lukasz Salski and Olga Dolgikh.- Perceptions About "Good Writing" and "Writing Competences" in Romanian Academic Writing Practices: A Questionnaire Study; Cristina Baniceru 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; Madalina 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 Lódz; Ola Majchrzak and Lukasz 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.