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Academic writing in Central and Eastern Europe remains an under-explored area in both teaching and research. While in many Western countries universities have long acknowledged the importance of writing support and research-based teaching implementations, in Eastern and Central Europe student writing has merely been seen as a personal skill that is acquired in school and improved by practice during university studies. Research in academic writing is therefore needed not only to understand this particularly dynamic and varied region, with its changing institutional landscape, but also to understand how to best facilitate or effect positive change. We wish the present collection of studies to be a first step in that direction.
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Doroholschi, C.I., Tucan, D., Chitez, M., Kruse, O. (2018). Introduction: Understanding Academic Writing in the Context of Central and Eastern European Higher Education. In: Chitez, M., Doroholschi, C., Kruse, O., Salski, Ł., Tucan, D. (eds) University Writing in Central and Eastern Europe: Tradition, Transition, and Innovation. Multilingual Education, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95198-0_1
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