“…Much has been written of the problematic nature of binaries such as native versus nonnative users of English (Davies, 2013; Faez, 2011; Paikeday, 1985), including in (L2) writing studies, where there is a strong argument that many of the challenges faced by those seeking to achieve publication of their research are shared by all scholars, regardless of their L1 (Habibie & Hyland, 2019; Hultgren, 2019; Paltridge & Starfield, 2016). As Mauranen, Pérez-Llantada and Swales (2010) rightly point out, academese is nobody’s first language.…”