Can some one explain the meaning of this passage? and how different examples relate to each other. EAP and Social Context We now turn attention to research that investigates EAP in its wider social context, including its position as a set of social practices both within institutions and globally. Early work of this type focused on academic discourse as a socially constructed phenomenon and on the student's socialization into the disciplinary community (Bazerman 1 988; Berkenkotter and Huckin 1 995) . More recent studies have employed a variety of approaches, often combining methods to shed light on the social dimensions of EAP practices. Thus Hyland ( 2009) uses corpus investigation together with interview data to examine engagement, as does Pecorari (2008) , who investigates source use and plagiarism. Discourse - based interviews are also employed by Harwood (2009) to look at citation and by Kwan (2009) to elucidate the reading practices of doctoral students.