Cohesive features in argumentative writing produced by Chinese undergraduates

System

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 623-636

  Liu, Meihua ^a   Braine, George ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Argumentative writing; Chinese undergraduate non English majors; Cohesive features; Conjunction tie; Lexical tie; Reference tie

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744588792     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2005.02.002     Document Type: Article

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