"I'm an artist and a scholar who is trying to find a middle point": A textographic analysis of a Colombian art historian's thesis writing

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 79-99

  Seloni, Lisya ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culturalhistoric activity theory (CHAT); Multilingual writers; Textography; Thesis writing; Translingual academic literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905394980     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2014.06.001     Document Type: Article

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