Success in the abstract: Exploring linguistic and stylistic predictors of conference abstract ratings

Corpora

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 291-313

  Egbert, Jesse ^a   Plonsky, Luke ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Conference abstracts; English for academic purposes; Register; Second language research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947909609     PISSN: 17495032     EISSN: 17551676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/cor.2015.0079     Document Type: Article

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