A contrastive study of the rhetorical organisation of English and Spanish PhD thesis introductions

English for Specific Purposes

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 4-17

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

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Computing; Contrastive rhetoric; Doctoral thesis; Genre analysis; Intercultural rhetoric; Introduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049416022     PISSN: 08894906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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