PISA - A procedure for analyzing the structure of explanatory texts

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Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 91-132

  Sanders, Ted ^a   Van Wijk, Carel ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coherence; Cohesion; Connectives; Text analysis; Text structure; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010793161     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.1.1996.16.1.91     Document Type: Article

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