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Corrosion in one or more of its various forms is attendant in almost every stage of operation in the petroleum and petrochemical industries and is recognised as a major cost item. There is general recognition in these industries of the vast savings that can be made by the judicious selection of materials to combat corrosion, and considerable effort is expended in the evaluation of materials of construction likely to provide economic solutions to many corrosion problems.

Part 1 of this article, published in our March issue, dealt with the applications of high‐nickel alloys in petroleum production and in the fundamental distillation processes. The second part deals with applications of these alloys to combat specific corrosion problems in a variety of refinery treating processes and also discusses the selection of materials for high‐temperature applications in refinery and associated petrochemical processes.

On November 26 and 27 last year, the Institute of Petroleum and the Society of Chemical Industry held a joint symposium in London at the Federation of British Industries. The subject of the symposium was ‘Corrosion Problems of the Petroleum Industry.’ However, the papers discussed had a much wider field of interest as is evident from the following summaries and abstracts.

THE MODERN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE has been developed to a high level of efficiency and when used in cither public transport vehicle or privately owned motor, will run for thousands of miles before repair or replacements of worn parts is necessary. The problems which have up to now occupied the attention of lubricant manufacturers have, so far as the engine itself is concerned, been in the main connected with improving the quality of the engine oil in respect of oxidation resistance and carbon dispersing properties. Hydrodynamically a simple overall drop in viscosity level has gone a long way to ease starting torque and battery life. As might be expected, more attention has been paid to the transmission where the major mechanical development of the last few decades was the hypoid gear which could never have been economically applied unless special lubricants had become available.

This chapter discusses textography as a strategy for researching academic writing in higher education. Textography is an approach to the analysis of written texts which combines text analysis with ethnographic techniques, such as surveys, interviews and other data sources, in order to examine what texts are like, and why. It aims to provide a more contextualized basis for understanding students’ writing in the social, cultural and institutional settings in which it takes place than might be obtained by looking solely at students’ texts. Through discussion of the outcomes of a textography, which examined the written texts submitted by visual and performing arts doctoral students at a number of Australian universities, we reflect on what we learnt from the study that we could not have known by looking at the texts alone. If we had looked at the texts without the ethnographic data not only are there many things we would not have known, but many of the things we might have said would likely have been right off the mark. Equally, had we just had the ethnographic data without the text analysis, we would have missed the insights provided by the explicit text analysis. The textography enabled us to see the diversity of practices across fields of study and institutions as well as gain an understanding of why this might be the case, all of which is of benefit to student writers and their supervisors.

Degussa of Frankfurt am Main has established its own marketing subsidiary in Melbourne, the Degussa Australia Pty. Ltd. The new company, which will also have a branch office in Sydney, began business on 1st June 1978 and will be responsible for sale of the main product groups of the Degussa programme.

This article examines the discourse of appointment, promotion, and tenure (APT) documents for academic librarians. Discourse analysis can illuminate the social role of language, social systems, and social practices.

This qualitative research analyzes the APT documents for librarians from a group of US universities (n = 50) whose librarians are tenured faculty (n = 35). Linguistic features were examined to identify genre (text type) and register (language variety) characteristics.

The documents showed strong relationships with other texts; vocabulary from the language of human resources (HR); grammatical characteristics such as nominalization; passive constructions; few pronouns; the “quasi-synonymy” of series of adjectives, nouns, or verbs; and expression of certainty and obligation. The documents have a sociolinguistic and social semiotic component. In using a faculty genre, librarians assert solidarity with other faculty, while the prominent discourse of librarians as practitioners detracts from faculty solidarity.

This research is limited to librarians at US land grant institutions. It has implications for other research institutions and other models of librarian status.

This research can help academic librarians fulfill their obligations by understanding how values encoded in these documents reflect positive and negative approaches.

Higher education and academic librarianship are in a state of flux. Understanding the discourse of these documents can help librarians encode appropriate goals and values. Little has been written on the discourse of librarianship. This is a contribution to the understanding of librarians as a discourse community and of significant communicative events.

This paper attempts to establish the existence of a professional language genre for public relations by evaluating the history of genre analysis and its application in professional contexts. Bhatia’s work, in 1993, demonstrates professional language genre analysis in similar contexts to public relations writing, which make the mapping of the process both relevant and workable for this discipline. The application of Bhatia’s and Swale’s work, in 1990, on modelling the rhetorical moves behind communicative purposes of a genre has been successfully applied within the paper to the news release genre. The paper therefore proposes a model of professional language genre analysis, which may provide a useful guide to writing effective news releases for practitioners and students working in the fields of public relations and corporate communications.