Do Goals Affect the Structure of Students' Argumentative Writing Strategies?

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 577-589

  Ferretti, Ralph P ^a   Lewis, William E ^a   Andrews Weckerly, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

argumentation schemes; argumentative writing; writing goals

Indexed keywords

EID: 67949119019     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014702     Document Type: Article

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