Fostering topic knowledge: Essential for academic writing

Reading and Writing

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1337-1352

  Proske, Antje ^a   Kapp, Felix ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Learning questions; Macro strategies; Text comprehension; Topic knowledge; Writing from sources; Writing process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881550624     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-012-9421-4     Document Type: Article

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