“I would like to thank my supervisor”. Acknowledgements in graduate dissertations

International Journal of Applied Linguistics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 259-275

  Hyland, Ken ^a   Tse, Polly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84901205334     PISSN: 08026106     EISSN: 14734192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1473-4192.2004.00062.x     Document Type: Article

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