How do we play the genre game in preparing students at the advanced undergraduate level for research writing?

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-64

  Paxton, Moragh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Economics; Genre; Honours; References; Research; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751625715     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2011.530755     Document Type: Article

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