Learning argument practices through online role-play: Toward a rhetoric of significance and transformation

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 460-468

  Beach, Richard ^a   Doerr Stevens, Candance ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 63649146246     PISSN: 10813004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/JAAL.52.6.1     Document Type: Note

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