Convention and inventiveness in an occluded academic genre: A case study of retention-promotion-tenure reports

English for Specific Purposes

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-192

  Hyon, Sunny ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 40849088008     PISSN: 08894906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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