Operationalizing the concept of discourse community: A case study of one institutional site of composing

Research in the Teaching of English

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 486-529

  Beaufort, Anne ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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