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Doctor Paltridge (May 1947) is Professor of TESOL in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney and plays a pivotal role for the University, with his expertise in the areas of discourse analysis, genre analysis, second language writing and English for specific purposes. Paltridge contributes heavily to his field of applied Linguistics with over 100 of his works making their way into various books and research material.

Biography
Chronologically, His education has varied greatly over the decades he's lived for. - Jan 1979 - Dec 1981 Victoria University of Wellington - Jan 1983 - Dec 1984 Macarthur Institute of Higher Education - Apr 1984 - May 1984 Australian College of English - Jan 1986 - Dec 1987 Sydney College of Advanced Education - Jan 1988 - Dec 1989 University of Sydney - Jan 1992 - Dec 1994 The University of Waikato - Jan 1995 - Dec 2000 University of Melbourne - Jan 2001 - Dec 2001 Auckland University of Technology - Jan 2002 - University of Sydney

Early life
Being a rather reclusive man, not much is known about not only his home life, but his early life as well. Records indicate that his earliest University job was at Victoria University of Wellington in January 1979

Published works
Discourse Analysis : An Introduction

Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis

Historical Discourse The Language of Time, Cause and Evaluation

The discourse of Peer Review

Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics: A practical Resource

The Bloomsbury companion to Discourse Analysis

New Direction in English for Specific Purposes

Getting Published in Academic Journals

Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions
BA (Well), GradDipTESOL (UTS), RSA CertTEFLA, RSADipTEFLA (Sydney), AssocDipCtyLangs (UWS), MA (Sydney), PhD (Waik), NAATI III Professor of TESOL