A Model for Doctoral Students' Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Written Feedback for Academic Writing

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 508-536

  Can, Gulfidan ^a   Walker, Andrew ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Attitudes; Doctoral students; Feedback; Perceptions; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959644225     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-010-9204-1     Document Type: Article

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