ESL Writing Assessment Prompts: How Students Choose

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-49

  Polio, Charlene ^a   Glew, Margo ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0042807376     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1060-3743(96)90014-4     Document Type: Article

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