Tackling the needs of foreign academic writers: A case study

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 20-25

  Kushner, Shimona ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

English as a Foreign Language; Graduate engineering education; Israel; Teaching of writing

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EFFICIENCY; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; TEACHING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

TEACHING OF WRITING;

ENGINEERS;

EID: 0031098947     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/47.557514     Document Type: Review

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