In the edited volume Writing for Professional Development, Giulia Ortoleva, Mireille Bétrancourt and Stephen Billett explore the relation between writing and professional development. Two main perspectives are considered: learning to write professionally and writing to learn the profession.

Giulia Ortoleva, Ph.D. (2015), University of Geneva, is a research assistant in the field of educational technologies in that university. Her thesis, as well as the articles she published, analyse the role of writing as a tool to support professional development in the vocational education context.
Mireille Bétrancourt, Ph.D. (1996), French Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, is full Professor at the school of Psychology and educational sciences, University of Geneva. Her research investigates how people learn with technology and how to design user-friendly and cognitively relevant learning environments.
Stephen Billett, PH. D (1996) Griffith University, is a full Professor of Adult and Vocational Education at Griffith University, Australia. Since 1992, he has researched learning through and for work and has published widely in fields of learning of occupations, workplace learning, work and conceptual accounts of learning for occupational purposes.