Does text readability matter? A study of paraphrasing and plagiarism in English as a foreign language writing context

Asia-Pacific Education Researcher

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 296-306

  Sun, Yu Chih ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

L2 writing; Paraphrasing; Plagiarism; Read to write; Readability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864041273     PISSN: 01195646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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