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Jean Brick has taught Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University for 18 years. Her areas of interest include academic communication, intercultural communication and the language of science. Her research interests focus on academic communication, most recently on the use of metaphor in academic discourse. She has undertaken consultancies on academic literacy and second language teaching and learning funded by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and AusAid in Maldives, Sri Lanka, Tonga, Kiribati, China and Indonesia. Her publications include Brick, J., Herke, M. & Wong D., Academic Culture: A student’s guide to studying at university (3rd ed), Macmillan, Melbourne (2016) and Brick, J., China, A handbook in inter-cultural communication (2nd ed) NCELTR, Sydney (2004)