Academic Staff

Dr Bojana Petric

Position in departmentCoordinator for Graduate Admissions, Publicity Coordinator
Staff positionLecturer [BP]
E-mailbpetric (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk)
Telephone2227 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number)
Fax2198
Room4.127
Office hoursMondays 2:30-4:30
Biography

Bojana joined the department in 2007 to teach modules in applied linguistics such as foundations of and research in ESP/EAP, professional communication, and intercultural communication. Previously she taught at Novi Sad University (Serbia), Central European University (Hungary) and Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) and participated in numerous EAP projects as course designer and teacher in Hungary, Russia, Serbia and Turkey. She has published papers on academic writing, specifically on students’ citation practices, plagiarism, writer voice, and interdisciplinarity, in journals such as Journal of Second Language Writing, Written Communication, English for Specific Purposes, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, The Writing Center Journal, and System, as well as in edited volumes, such as English as an international language: Perspectives and pedagogical issues (2009) edited by Farzad Sharifian, Constructing interpersonality: Multiple perspectives and applications to written academic genres (2010) co-edited by R. Lorés-Sanz, P. Mur-Dueňas, and E. Lafuente-Millán, and Crossed words: Criticism in scholarly writing (2011) co-edited by F. Salager-Meyer and B. Lewin. She has also published a book on educational reform (A glossary of the educational reform, 2006 [in Serbian]). She was the Deputy Chair of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW) from 2009 to 2011.

Websitehttp://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~bpetric/
Qualifications

BA Novi Sad, MPhil Belgrade, PhD Budapest.

Research interests
  • Academic writing
  • Source use and citing
  • Writer voice and identity
  • Writing for international publication
  • L2 writing pedagogy
  • EAP
Teaching responsibilities

LG427-6-AU - Foundations of ESP

LG427-7-AU - Foundations of ESP

LG425-6-AU - Foundations of Intercultural & Professional Communication

LG425-7-AU - Foundations of Intercultural & Professional Communication

LG439-6-SP - Topics in Professional Communication

LG439-7-SP - Topics in Professional Communication

LG623-7-SP - Research Topics in ESP

Publications

Full publication list: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~bpetric/

Petrić, B., & Harwood, N. (forthcoming). Task requirements, task representation, and self-reported citation functions: An exploratory study of a successful L2 student's writing. Journal of English for Academic Purposes.

Petrić, B. (2012). Legitimate textual borrowing: Direct quotation in L2 student writing. Journal of Second Language Writing, 21,102-117. 

Harwood, N., & Petrić, B. (2012). Performance in the citing behaviour of two student writers. Written Communication, 29, 55-103.

Petrić, B. (2011). Scholarly criticism in a small academic community: A diachronic study of book reviews in the oldest Serbian journal. In F. Salager-Meyer & B.A. Lewin (Eds.), Crossed words: Criticism in scholarly writing (pp. 309-338). Bern: Peter Lang.

Harwood, N., & Petrić, B. (2011). English for academic purposes. In J. Simpson (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics (pp.243-258). London: Routledge.

Petrić, B.(2010). Students' conceptions of voice in academic writing. In R. Lorés-Sanz, P. Mur-Duenas, &; E. Lafuente-Millán (Eds.),Constructing interpersonality: Multiple perspectives on written academic discourse (pp. 325-336). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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