Vijay K. Bhatia retired as Professor from the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong. His research interests mainly include Critical Genre Analysis, academic and professional discourses, ESP and Professional Communication. Two of his books, Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings and Worlds of Written Discourse: A Genre-based View, are widely used in genre theory and practice.Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English Language and Translation, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Communication, and Director of the Research Centre for LSP Research (CERLIS) at the University of Bergamo. His main research areas are the features and origins of specialized discourse.