Research article abstracts in two related disciplines: Rhetorical variation between linguistics and applied linguistics

English Language Teaching

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 84-99

  Suntara, Watinee ^a   Usaha, Siriluck ^a  

^a SURANAREE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Abstracts; Disciplinary variation; Genres; Research article abstracts; Rhetorical structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872826421     PISSN: 19164742     EISSN: 19164750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/elt.v6n2p84     Document Type: Article

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