Introduction

This edited collection draws from the Summer Institute for Creative and Discovery-Based Approaches to Teaching University English for Specific Disciplines that was held by the department of English, at City University of Hong Kong in 2014. This was the second Summer Institute organised by the department in order to provide a creative space for thinking about approaches to the teaching of discipline-specific university writing, the previous one focussing more broadly on creativity and discovery in the university writing class (Chik, Costley and Pennington, 2015). Many of the chapters in this collection were developed out of interactive workshops at this Summer Institute, bringing practitioners and researchers together from across a wide range of Higher Education (HE) contexts. Through this edited collection we hope to make these ideas and approaches available to audiences beyond the Summer Institute (see also Flowerdew (2016a) for a selection of articles also deriving from this Summer Institute).