An Aspect of Holistic Modeling in Academic Writing: Propositional Clusters as a Heuristic for Thematic Control

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-41

  Gosden, Hugh ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 0346855353     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1060-3743(98)90004-2     Document Type: Article

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