Shaping Chinese novice scientists' manuscripts for publication

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 100-117

  Li, Yongyan ^a   Flowerdew, John ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

EAL authors; Editing; English language barrier; Novice scientists; Scholarly publication

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548120767     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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