Tutor and student assessments of academic writing tutorials: What is "success"?

Assessing Writing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 110-134

  Thonus, Terese ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interactional sociolinguistics; Oral discourse analysis; Second language writing; Tutorials; Tutors; Writing assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 1942440465     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1075-2935(03)00002-3     Document Type: Article

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