Shell nouns as cohesive devices in published and ESL student writing

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-14

  Aktas, Rahime Nur ^a   Cortes, Viviana ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Corpus linguistics; English for academic purposes; Reference; Second language writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049127482     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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