Unconventional Internet genres and their impact on second language undergraduate students' writing process

Internet and Higher Education

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-17

  Radia, Pavlina ^a   Stapleton, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Argumentation, Opinion forming processes; Electronic literacy; Second language undergraduate students; Second language writing; Unconventional; Web genres; Web sourcing

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; WEB SERVICES;

ACADEMIC WRITING; SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING; WEB-SPECIFIC GENRES;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 43049176174     PISSN: 10967516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iheduc.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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