Can any one proof-read this passage? It's a more specialized one. English For Academic Purposes and Social Context. This approach tries to investigate EAP in a wider social context. Early studies mostly devoted to the investigation of academic discourse as a socially constructed phenomenon. So that, many studies were conducted on how both students and teachers utilize various tools in order to cope with academy's conventions. conversely, another approach called 'academic literacies' employs a critical perspective in this regard. it's main argue is based on EAP's sociocultural context and its imposition of an unequal power relations. Academic literacies researchers take a stance that is essentially“ transformative ”(Lillis and Scott 2007 ), in that they acknowledge the legitimacy of the resources that students bring to the academy and seek to develop alternative practices that would validate them (Lea and Street 2 006) . Their 'transformative approach' is in 'stark contrast' with the previous 'normative approach', which tries to shape a homogenous environment in which all the academic members would use a single language (academic discourse). On the hand, transformative approach wants to alter this status quo by arguing demands on expansion of options in students' writing. also as I argued in previous sections, this idea is more tangible when we consider a wider social context where publications give more importance to English native speakers in accepting their research. And almost reviewers set this idea "not being a native" as a key factor for their rejection. This imposes an unequal power and marginalizes the NNS from the academic world.