The schematic structure of Spanish PhD thesis introductions

Spanish in Context

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-175

  Carbonell Olivares, María ^a   Gil Salom, Luz ^a   Soler Monreal, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Computing; Doctoral thesis introductions; Genre analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950746581     PISSN: 15710718     EISSN: 15710726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/sic.6.2.01car     Document Type: Article

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