Variation in the Writing of Economics Students in Britain and Pakistan: The Case of Conjunctive Ties

Academic Writing: at the Interface of Corpus and Discourse

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 236-250

  Gardezi, S Amina ^a   Nesi, Hilary ^b  

^a Beaconhouse National University   (Pakistan)

^b NONE

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