Guiding the reader (or not) to re-create coherence: Observations on postgraduate student writing in an academic argumentative writing task

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 16, Issue , 2014, Pages 14-22

  Basturkmen, Helen ^a   von Randow, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Argumentative writing; Coherence; Cohesion; Concession; Rhetorical relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907368349     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2014.07.005     Document Type: Article

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