(In)appropriate personal pronoun use in Political Science: A qualitative study and a proposed heuristic for future research

Written Communication

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 424-450

  Harwood, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpora; Disciplinary writing conventions; Interviews; Research heuristic

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749648072     PISSN: 07410883     EISSN: 15528472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741088306293921     Document Type: Article

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