The organization of Japanese expository passages

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 166-174

  Fukuoka, Waka ^b   Spyridakis, Jan H ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b FUJI XEROX CO LTD   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrastive rhetoric; Deductive organization; Inductive organization; Organization patterns

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION THEORY;

CONTRACTIVE RHETORIC; JAPANESE EXPOSITORY PASSAGES;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 0032595758     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/47.784568     Document Type: Article

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