Student connections with academic texts: A phenomenographic study of reading

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 943-954

  Macmillan, Margy ^a  

^a MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Connections; Phenomenography; Prior knowledge; Reading; Scholarly articles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904087250     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2014.934345     Document Type: Article

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