Writing at the graduate level: What tasks do professors actually require?

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 206-221

  Cooper, Amy ^a   Bikowski, Dawn ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic; EAP; Graduate; Tasks; University; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748970726     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2007.09.008     Document Type: Article

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