Academic journalese for the Internet: A study of native English-speaking editors' changes to texts written by Danish and Finnish professionals

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 3, Issue 4 SPEC.ISS., 2004, Pages 341-359

  Yli Jokipii, Hilkka ^a   Jorgensen, Poul Erik Flyvholm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Academic journalese; Cohesive devices; EAP; Explicitness; Implicitness; Native editors; Non native writers

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244227898     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2004.07.006     Document Type: Article

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