Academic writing has become an issue that cause a lot of worry for students. A small scale survey shows that students' problems in writing are as follows: limited vocabulary 8%, difficulty in organizing ideas 16%, no ideas to write about 20%, no motivation to write 20%, and lack of confidence in grammar 36%. English for Academic Purposes: Essay Writing is a very practical book, which gives solutions to these problems. This book on academic writing is suitably used by students majoring in English, English course students, non-English students who want to write in English, those who want to take postgraduate course abroad, those who want to write journal articles, and English language teachers. This book covers very valuable topics, such as basic principle in writing, meaningful reading for writing, writing an introduction, writing citations, data gathering, commenting on data, revising and editing, and writing references. This book is designed by experienced English lecturers in writing. In addition, these materials have been tried out in classes at Maranatha Christian University and STP Bandung