Policies and practices in foreign language writing at the college level: Survey results and implications

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 650-671

  O'Donnell, Mary E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ESL writing; Foreign language writing; Treatment of revisions; Writing feedback; Writing policy and procedure

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849019053     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2007.tb02886.x     Document Type: Article

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