Consider this: The role of imperatives in scholarly writing

Applied Linguistics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 97-121

  Swales, John M ^b   Ahmad, Ummul K ^a   Chang, Yu Ying ^b   Chavez, Daniel ^b   Dressen, Dacia F ^b   Seymour, Ruth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.1093/applin/19.1.97     Document Type: Article

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