Genre: A Pigeonhole or a Pigeon? Case Studies of the Dilemmas Posed by the Writing of Academic Research Proposals

Risk in Academic Writing: Postgraduate Students, their Teachers and the Making of Knowledge

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 148-165

  Paxton, Moragh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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