Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney. His publications include the Handbook of English for Specific Purposes (edited with Sue Starfield, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). The second edition of his book Discourse Analysis was published by Bloomsbury in 2012. He is author, with Sue Starfield and Christine Tardy of Ethnographic Perspectives on Academic Writing, Oxford University Press, 2015 and, also with Sue Starfield, Getting Published in Academic Journals, University of Michigan Press, 2016. He is an editor emeritus of English for specific purposes and co-editor of TESOL Quarterly.