From syntactical to textual strategies of argumentation: Syntactical development in written argumentative texts by students aged 10 to 22

Argumentation

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 197-212

  Feilke, Helmuth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherence; Cohesion; Implicitness; Syntactical complexity; Writing development metacommunicative awareness; Written argument

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001535262     PISSN: 0920427X     EISSN: 15728374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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