About the Editors |
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Tony Silva is
Associate Professor of ESL in the Department of English at Purdue
University, where he coordinates the ESL writing program. He founded and
chairs the
Symposium on Second Language Writing and edited
On Second Language Writing and
Landmark Essays on ESL Writing. He serves on the
editorial boards of Assessing Writing, Journal of Basic Writing,
and Writing Program Administration. His research on second language
writing has appeared in TESOL Quarterly,
College Composition
and Communication, and a number of other journals.
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Ilona Leki is
Professor of English and Director of ESL at the University of Tennessee.
Her books include Understanding ESL Writers: A Guide for Teachers,
Academic Writing: Exploring Processes and Strategies, and Reading
in the Composition Classroom: Second Language Perspectives (with Joan
Carson). Her research interests center around the development of academic
literacy, and she is winner of the 1996 TESOL/Newbury House Distinguished
Researcher Award.
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