Words make a difference: The effects of Greco-Latinate and Anglo-Saxon lexical variation on college writing instructors

Research in the Teaching of English

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 220-247

  Maylath, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

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