A closer look at integrated writing tasks: Towards a more focussed definition for assessment purposes

Assessing Writing

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 300-308

  Knoch, Ute ^a   Sitajalabhorn, Woranon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Integrated tasks; Integrated writing tasks; Writing assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885052881     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2013.09.003     Document Type: Article

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