'Paving the way for research findings': Writers' rhetorical choices in education and applied linguistics

Discourse Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 725-749

  Lim, Jason Miin Hwa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

education; interdisciplinary differences; linguistics; move analysis; research genre; result pavements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255194903     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445611421364     Document Type: Article

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