Ventriloquation in discussions of student writing: Examples from a high school english class

Research in the Teaching of English

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 52-88

  Samuelson, Beth Lewis ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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