Irena Vassileva, Dr. phil. habil., is Full Professor of English and German at the New Bulgarian University - Sofia, Bulgaria. Mariya Chankova is Dr. Phil. in English Linguistics from the RWTH Aachen. She is Senior Assistant Professor of English and French at the South-West University - Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Esther Breuer is the head of the Centre for Writing Competency at the University of Cologne, Germany. Klaus P. Schneider holds the Chair in Applied English Linguistics at the University of Bonn, Germany.