Creativity, students' academic writing, and EAP: Exploring comments on writing in an English language degree programme

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 191-209

  Allison, Desmond ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Accommodation; Content in EAP; Creativity; Writing task

Indexed keywords

EID: 23444455035     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2003.11.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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