"Mistakes are a fact of life": A national comparative study

College Composition and Communication

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 781-806

  Lunsford, Andrea A ^a   Lunsford, Karen J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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