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Lillis, Theresa (2026). The language of social work. In: Nesi, Hilary and Milin, Petar eds. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. London, UK: Elsevier (In Press).

Curry, Mary Jane and Lillis, Theresa (2024). Multilingualism in academic writing for publication: Putting English in its place. Language Teaching, 57(1) pp. 87–100.

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Lillis, Theresa and Leedham, Maria (2024). Who Is The ‘I’? An Exploration Of Social Work Professional Written Discourse And Implications For Social Work Education. Social Work Education (Early Access).

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Lillis, Theresa (2024). Cerrando la brecha entre texto y contexto en la investigación sobre la escritura académica: revisitando la etnografía como método, metodología y teorización profunda / Closing the gap between text and context in researching academic writing: revisiting ethnography as method, methodology and deep theorising. Cuadernos del Sur, 54 pp. 17–53.

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Leedham, Maria; Lillis, Theresa and Twiner, Alison (2024). Direct quotations in social work writing: multifunctionality and double voicing. British Journal of Social Work (In press).

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Lillis, Theresa (2023). Professional written voice ‘in flux’: the case of social work. Applied Linguistics Review, 14(3) pp. 615–641.

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Lillis, Theresa; Twiner, Alison; Balkow, Michael; Lucas, Gillian; Smith, Miriam and Leedham, Maria (2023). Reflections on the procedural and practical ethics in researching professional social work writing. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (Early Access).

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Navarro, Federico; Lillis, Theresa; Donahue, Tiane; Curry, Mary Jane; Reyes, Natalia Ávila; Gustafsson, Magnus; Zavala, Virginia; Lauría, Daniela; Lukin, Annabelle; McKinney, Carolyn; Feng, Haiying and Motta-Roth, Désirée (2023). Manifesto: Reconsideração do Inglês como Língua Franca em Contextos Acadêmico-Científicos [Rethinking English as a Lingua Franca in Scientific-Academic Contexts]. Revista da Anpoll, 54(1), article no. e1926.

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Smirnova, Natalia and Lillis, Theresa (2022). Citation in global academic knowledge making: A paired text history methodology for studying citation practices in English and Russian. Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes, 3(1) pp. 78–108.

Lillis, Theresa and Curry, Mary Jane (2022). [Editorial]. Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes, 3(1) pp. 1–5.

Lillis, Theresa and Curry, Mary Jane (2022). The dynamics of academic knowledge making in a multilingual world: chronotypes of production. Journal of English for Research and Publication Purposes, 3(1) pp. 109–142.

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Leedham, Maria; Lillis, Theresa and Twiner, Alison (2021). Creating a corpus of sensitive and hard-to-access texts: Methodological challenges and ethical concerns in the building of the WiSP corpus. Journal of Applied Corpus Linguistics, 1(3)

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Lillis, Theresa (2021). Prefacio. Herramientas para construir una pedagogía inclusiva de la escritura. In: Navarro, Federico ed. Escritura e inclusión en la universidad. Herramientas para docentes. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria, pp. 19–44.

Lillis, Theresa (2021). Academic Literacies: Intereses Locales, Preocupaciones Globales? Academic Literacies: Local Interests, Global Concerns? In: Ávila Reyes, Natalia ed. Multilingual Contributions to Writing Research Toward an Equal Academic Exchange. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado, pp. 35–59.

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Smirnova, Natalia V.; Lillis, Theresa and Hultgren, Anna Kristina (2021). English and/or Russian medium publications? A case study exploring academic research writing in contemporary Russian academia. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 53, article no. 101015.

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Lillis, Theresa (2021). Writing as a critical moment in professional discourse. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 15(3) pp. 334–363.

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Lillis, Theresa; Leedham, Maria and Twiner, Alison (2020). Time, the Written Record, and Professional Practice: The Case of Contemporary Social Work. Written Communication, 37(4) pp. 431–486.

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Leedham, Maria; Lillis, Theresa and Twiner, Alison (2020). Exploring the core ‘preoccupation’ of social work writing: A corpus-assisted discourse study. Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies, 3 pp. 1–26.

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Lillis, Theresa (2019). ‘Academic literacies’: sustaining a critical space on writing in academia. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education(15)

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Lillis, Theresa (2019). Book Review of 'On Writtenness: The Cultural Politics of Academic Writing' by Joan Turner. Journal of Second Language Writing, 44 pp. 91–93.

Curry, Mary Jane and Lillis, Theresa (2019). Unpacking the lore on multilingual scholars publishing in English: A discussion paper. Publications, 7(2), article no. 27.

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Leedham, Maria; Lillis, Theresa and Twiner, Alison (2019). Exploring the core ‘preoccupation’ of professional social work writing: A corpus-assisted discourse study. In: International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2019, 26-29 Jul 2019, Cardiff University, UK.

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Lillis, Theresa and Curry, Mary Jane (2018). Trajectories of knowledge and desire: Multilingual women scholars researching and writing in academia. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 32 pp. 53–66.

Lillis, Theresa; McMullan, Jenny and Tuck, Jackie (2018). Gender and academic writing. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 32 pp. 1–8.

Leedham, Maria; Lillis, Theresa and Twiner, Alison (2018). Creating a corpus of social workers’ writing: Methodological challenges, representational issues and analytical concerns. In: 4th Corpora and Discourse International Conference, 22-24 Jun 2018, Lancaster University.

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Curry, Mary Jane and Lillis, Theresa (2017). Problematizing English as the Privileged Language of Global Academic Publishing. In: Curry, Mary Jane and Lillis, Theresa eds. Global Academic Publishing: Policies, Perspectives and Pedagogies. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, pp. 1–20.

Lillis, Theresa (2017). Writing in professional social work practice in a changing communicative landscape (WISP). In Impact Impact 2017(9) pp.61-63, Science Impact Ltd.

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Lillis, Theresa; Leedham, Maria and Twiner, Alison (2017). Writing in contemporary social work: texts, technologies and trajectories. In: BAAL2017: British Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, 31 Aug - 02 Sep 2017, University of Leeds, UK.

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Lillis, Theresa (2017). Imagined, prescribed and actual text trajectories: the ‘problem’ with case notes in contemporary social work. Text and Talk, 37(4) pp. 485–508.

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Curry, Mary Jane and Lillis, Theresa eds. (2017). Global academic publishing: policies, perspectives and pedagogies. Studies in knowledge production and participation. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Lillis, Theresa (2017). Resistir regímenes de evaluación en el estudio del escribir: hacia un imaginario enriquecido. Signo y pensamiento, 36(71) pp. 66–81.

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Lillis, Theresa; Leedham, Maria and Twiner, Alison (2017). ‘If it’s not written down it didn’t happen’: Contemporary social work as a writing intensive profession. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 14(1) pp. 29–52.

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Cremin, Teresa; Lillis, Theresa; Myhill, Debra and Eyres, Ian (2016). Professional writers’ identities: the perceived influence of formal education and early learning. In: Cremin, Teresa and Locke, Terry eds. Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 19–36.

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Lillis, Theresa; Leedham, Maria and Twiner, Alison (2016). Combining ethnography and corpus to research writing practices in social work: challenges and opportunities in methodology, epistemology and application. In: ALAPP 2016 (Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Conference), 3-5 Nov 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Lillis, Theresa; Harrington, Kathy and eds. (2016). Working With Academic Literacies: Case Studies Towards Transformative Practice. Perspectives on writing. Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse/Parlor Press.

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Lillis, Theresa and Curry, Mary Jane (2016). Academic writing for publication in a multilingual world. In: Manchón, Rosa M. and Matsuda, Paul Kei eds. Handbook of Second and Foreign Language Writing. Communication Competence Language and Communication Problems Practical Solutions, 11. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 201–222.

Lillis, T.; Leedham, M.; Twiner, A.; Moore, J. and Whitehead, M. (2016). ‘If it’s not written down it didn’t happen’: Social worker perspectives on contemporary writing and recording demands. In: Joint Social Work Education and Research Conference (JSWEC) 2016, 15 Jul 2016, Milton Keynes.

Lillis, Theresa and Tuck, Jackie (2016). Academic Literacies: a critical lens on writing and reading in the academy. In: Hyland, Ken and Shaw, Philip eds. The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes. Routledge Handbooks. Routledge, pp. 30–43.

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Hann, David and Lillis, Theresa eds. (2016). The Politics of Language and Creativity in a Globalised World. Milton Keynes: The Open University.

Lillis, Theresa (2016). Creativity in political discourse. In: Hann, David and Lillis, Theresa eds. The politics of language and creativity in a globalised world. Milton Keynes: The Open University, pp. 65–113.

Lillis, Theresa and Curry, Mary Jane (2015). The politics of English, language and uptake: the case of international academic journal article reviews. AILA Review, 28 pp. 127–150.

Curry, Mary Jane and Lillis, Theresa (2014). Strategies and tactics in academic knowledge production by multilingual scholars. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 22, article no. 32.

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Lillis, Theresa (2013). The Sociolinguistics of Writing. Edinburgh Sociolinguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Rai, Lucy and Lillis, Theresa (2013). ‘Getting it Write’ in social work: exploring the value of writing in academia to writing for professional practice. Teaching in Higher Education, 18(4) pp. 352–364.

Curry, Mary Jane and Lillis, Theresa (2013). A scholars’ guide to getting published in English: critical choices and practical strategies. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Lillis, Theresa (2012). English medium writing for academic purposes: foundational categories, certainty and contingency. In: Tang, Ramona ed. Academic writing in a second or foreign language: Issues and challenges facing ESL / EFL academic writers in higher education contexts. London: Continuum, pp. 235–247.

Lillis, Theresa (2012). Economies of signs in writing for academic publication: the case of English Medium “National” Journals. Journal of Advanced Composition, 32(3/4) pp. 695–722.

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Lillis, Theresa and Rai, Lucy (2012). Quelle relation entre l’écrit académique et l’écrit professionnel? Une étude de cas dans le domaine du travail social [What is the relationship between academic writing and professional writing? A case study in the field of social work]. Pratiques(153/4) pp. 51–70.

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Lillis, Theresa (2012). The sociolinguistics of writing in a global context. ESRC End of Award Report.

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Lillis, Theresa (2011). Legitimising dialogue as textual and ideological goal in academic writing for assessment and publication. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 10(4) pp. 403–434.

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Rai, Lucy and Lillis, Theresa (2011). A case study of a research-based collaboration around writing in social work. Across the disciplines, 8(3)

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Lillis, Theresa; Magyar, Anna and Robinson-Pant, Anna (2010). An international journal’s attempts to address inequalities in academic publishing: developing a writing for publication programme. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 40(6) pp. 781–800.

Hewings, Ann; Lillis, Theresa and Vladimirou, Dimitra (2010). Who's citing whose writings? A corpus based study of citations as interpersonal resource in English medium national and English medium international journals. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 9(2) pp. 102–115.

Curry, Mary Jane and Lillis, Theresa (2010). Making professional academic writing practices visible: Designing research-based heuristics to support English-medium text production. In: Harwood, Nigel ed. English Language Teaching Materials: Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 321–345.

Lillis, Theresa and Curry, Mary Jane (2010). Academic Writing in a Global Context: The politics and practices of publishing in English. Abingdon: Routledge.

Lillis, T.; Hewings, A.; Vladimirou, D. and Curry, M. J. (2010). The geolinguistics of English as an academic lingua franca: Citation practices across English-medium national and English-medium international journals. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 20(1) pp. 111–135.

Curry, Mary Jane and Lillis, Theresa M. (2010). Academic research networks: Accessing resources for English-medium publishing. English for Specific Purposes, 29(4) pp. 281–295.

Coffin, C.; Lillis, T. and O'Halloran, K. eds. (2009). Applied linguistics methods: A reader. London, UK: Routledge.

Carter, Awena; Lillis, Theresa and Parker, Sue eds. (2009). Why Writing Matters: Issues of access and identity in writing research and pedagogy. Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 12. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Lillis, Theresa (2009). Bringing writers' voices to writing research: Talk around texts. In: Carter, Awena; Lillis, Theresa and Parkin, Sue eds. Why Writing Matters: Issues of Access and Identity in Writing Research and Pedagogy. Studies in Written Language and Literacy (12). Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 169–187.

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Lillis, T. (2009). Étudiants déficitaires? Le dialogisme de Bakhtine dans l’exploration des pratiques d’écriture des étudiants 'non traditionnels' à l’université’. Cahiers Théodile, 10 pp. 117–132.

Brereton, John; Donahue, Christiane; Gannett, Cinthia; Lillis, Theresa and Scott, Mary (2009). La circulation de perspectives socioculturelles états-uniennes et britanniques : traitments de l'écrit dans le supérieur. In: Daunay, Bertrand; Delcambre, Isabelle and Reuter, Yves eds. Didatique du Français, le Socioculturel en Question. Éducation et Didactiques. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, pp. 51–68.

Lillis, Theresa and Hewings, Ann (2008). Trajectories of knowledge production: English medium academic writing for national, transnational and international journals. ESRC, Swindon, UK.

Lillis, Theresa (2008). Ethnography as method, methodology, and "deep theorizing": closing the gap between text and context in academic writing research. Written Communication, 25(3) pp. 353–388.

Lillis, Theresa; Hewings, Ann and Curry, Mary Jane (2008). The impact of global English on local knowledge production psychology in four national contexts. In: GlobEng: International Conference on Global English, 14-16 Feb 2008, Polo Zanotto, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.

Hewings, Ann; Lillis, Theresa and Mayor, Barbara (2007). Academic writing in English. In: Mercer, Neil; Swann, Joan and Mayor, Barbara eds. Learning English. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 227–252.

Goodman, Sharon; Graddol, David and Lillis, Theresa eds. (2007). Re-designing English. London, UK: Routledge.

Lillis, Theresa and Scott, Mary (2007). Defining academic literacies research: issues of epistemology, ideology and strategy. Journal of Applied Linguistics, 4(1) pp. 5–32.

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Lillis, Theresa and Curry, Mary Jane (2006). Reframing notions of competence in scholarly writing: From individual to networked activity. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 53(Special Is) pp. 63–78.

Lillis, Theresa and Curry, Mary Jane (2006). Professional academic writing by multilingual scholars: interactions with literacy brokers in the production of English-medium texts. Written Communication, 23(1) pp. 3–35.

Lillis, T.M. (2006). 'Academic Literacies' Research as Pedagogy: Dialogues of Participation. In: Ganobscik-Williams, Lisa ed. Teaching academic writing in UK Higher Education : Theories, practices and models. Universities into the 21st Century. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave.

Lillis, T. (2006). Readers and Writers. In: Goodman, Sharon and O'Halloran, Kieran eds. The Art of English: literary creativity. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 414–462.

Lillis, Theresa and North, Sarah (2006). Academic writing. In: Potter, Stephen ed. Doing postgraduate research (2nd ed). Open University series. London: Sage, pp. 114–151.

Lillis, T. M. (2005). Communicative competence. In: Brown, Keith ed. Encyclopedia of language and linguistics (2nd ed), Volume 1-14. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 666–673.

Lillis, T. and Ramsey, M. (2005). Student status and the question of choice in academic writing. In: Herrington, Margaret and Kendall, Alex eds. Insights from Research and Practice: A Handbook for Adult Literacy, Numeracy and ESOL Practitioners. Leicester, UK: NIACE.

Swann, Joan; Deumert, Ana; Lillis, Theresa and Mesthrie, Rajend (2004). A dictionary of sociolinguistics. Endinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.

Curry, Mary Jane and Lillis, Theresa (2004). Multilingual scholars and the imperative to publish in English: Negotiating interests, demands, and rewards. TESOL Quarterly, 38(4) pp. 663–688.

Coffin, Caroline; Curry, Mary Jane; Goodman, Sharon; Hewings, Ann; Lillis, Theresa and Swann, Joan (2003). Teaching Academic Writing: A Toolkit for Higher Education. London, UK: Routledge.

Goodman, Sharon; Lillis, Theresa; Maybin, Janet and Mercer, Neil (2003). Language, literacy and education: A reader. Stoke on Trent, UK: Trentham Books in association with The Open University.

Lillis, Theresa (2003). Analysing language in context: A student workbook. Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books/Open University Press.

Lillis, Theresa (2003). Student Writing as 'Academic Literacies': Drawing on Bakhtin to Move from Critique to Design. Language and Education, 17(3) 192 -207.

Lillis, Theresa (2003). Introduction: mapping the traditions of a social perspective on language and literacy. In: Goodman, Sharon; Lillis, Theresa; Maybin, Janet and Mercer, Neil eds. Language, literacy and education: a reader. Stoke On Trent, UK: Trentham Books, xiii-xxii.

Lillis, Theresa M. (2001). Student writing: access, regulation, desire. Literacies. UK: Routledge.

Lillis, Theresa and Turner, Joan (2001). Student writing in higher education: contemporary confusion, traditional concerns. Teaching in Higher Education, 6(1) pp. 57–68.