ABSTRACT
Diane Simmons is a senior academic in marketing at a research-intensive university. Mark West’s focus during the working day is, like that of the other academics in teaching-intensive universities, predominantly around teaching, both at the local university site in the UK and relating to his international teaching role in East Asia. The number of different types of writing that she engages in the course of a single day is quite striking: financial correspondence; teaching materials; application form; transcription; research writing; and course descriptions, several for the same course written in slightly different ways, which multiplies her workload. Brian Dow lectures in maths at a teaching-intensive university where he shares an office with one other colleague. Almost all of Brian’s writing tasks on the day in focus are related to teaching, teaching administration, and assessment. He is very directly involved in assessment, personally going to hunt down a missing exam paper and being very aware of exam boards.
