Student perceptions of stylistic variation in introductory university textbooks

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 64-77

  Egbert, Jesse ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Corpus stylistics; Introductory university textbooks; Multi Dimensional analysis; Reader perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894452232     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2013.09.007     Document Type: Article

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