Nigel Harwood

Nigel Harwood is a reader in Applied Linguistics at the University of Sheffield. He has previously published three co-authored journal articles reporting findings of an interview-based study of the profiles, practices and beliefs of proofreaders who work on student writing in the United Kingdom. He has also published research on English for academic purposes and teachers’ use of EFL and EAP textbooks; his most recent monograph focuses on students' experiences of dissertation supervision. He is co-editor of the journal English for Specific Purposes (Elsevier).

Nigel’s conference presentation is entitled What do proofreaders do to a poorly written Master’s essay? Differing interventions, disturbing findings. Nigel will also participate in a panel discussion with Jackie Senior, Carol Norris, and Joy Burrough-Boenisch entitled Putting the Dutch practice on editing texts for doctoral theses/dissertations into an international context.