Sujata S. Kathpalia is Senior Lecturer at the Language and Communication Centre at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She has designed several foundation and advanced English for Specific Academic Purpose (ESAP) courses using the genre-based approach and she teaches these ESAP courses to both undergraduates and postgraduates. Her research interests include genre analysis, academic writing, and English language teaching, and she has published extensively in these research areas.