Effect of instruction on ESL students' synthesis writing

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-67

  Zhang, Cui ^a  

^a EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse synthesis; ESL; L2 writing; Reading writing instruction; Writing from sources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874577740     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2012.12.001     Document Type: Article

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