Bullshit in academic writing- A protocol analisis of a high school senior's process of interpreting much ado about nothing

Research in the Teaching of English

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 368-405

  Smagorinsky, Peter ^a   Anne Daigle, Elizabeth ^a   O'Donnell Allen, Cindy ^b   Bynum, Susan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NONE

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