Daftar Isi:1. Introduction Understanding Academic Writing in the Context of Central and Eastern European Higher Education 2. A European Model for Writing Support 3. Studying and Developing Local Writing Cultures An Institutional Partnership Project Supporting Transition in Eastern Europe s Higher Education 4. Academic Writing at Babe 351 -Bolyai University. A Case Study 5. Institutional Writing Support in Romania Setting Up a Writing Center at the West University of Timi 537 oara 6. Academic Writing in a Russian University Setting Challenges and Perspectives 7. Reader Versus Writer Responsibility Revisited A Polish-Russian Contrastive Approach 8. Perceptions About Good Writing and Writing Competences in Romanian Academic Writing Practices A Questionnaire Study 9. Research Articles as a Means of Communicating Science Polish and Global Conventions 10. Corpus Linguistics Meets Academic Writing Examples of Applications in the Romanian EFL Context 11. Individual Differences and Micro- argumentative Writing Skills in EFL An Exploratory Study at a Hungarian University 12. 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 13. Assertion and Assertiveness in the Academic Writing of Polish EFL Speakers 14. Extended Patchwriting in EFL Academic Writing of Hungarian Students Signs and Possible Reasons 15. Peer Review and Journal Writing in the Eyes of First-Year Students of English Studies A Writing Course at the University of L d 378 16. An Analysis of Dissertation Abstracts Written by Non-native English Speakers at a Serbian University Differences and Similarities Across Disciplines