Learning to write history: The role of causality

Written Communication

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 261-289

  Coffin, Caroline ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causality; Functional linguistics; History writing; School history; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746285045     PISSN: 07410883     EISSN: 15528472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741088304265476     Document Type: Article

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