Cultural representations of rhetorical conventions: The effects on reading recall

TESOL Quarterly

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 511-541

  Chu, Hsi Chin Janet ^a   Swaffar, Janet ^b   Charney, Davida H ^b  

^a PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 4043169427     PISSN: 00398322     EISSN: 15457249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3588239     Document Type: Article

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