A close investigation into source use in integrated second language writing tasks

Assessing Writing

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-34

  Plakans, Lia ^a   Gebril, Atta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Integrated tasks; Reading to write; Source use; Writing assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855790026     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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