Creating a contrastive rhetorical stance: Investigating the strategy of problematization in students' argumentation

RELC Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 329-353

  Mei, Wu Siew ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Appraisal; Argumentative; Contrastive stance; Engagement system; Evaluative resources; Strategy of problematization; Undergraduate essays

Indexed keywords

EID: 61149254916     PISSN: 00336882     EISSN: 1745526X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0033688206071316     Document Type: Article

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