The role of readers in writing development: Writing students bringing their texts to the test

The SAGE Handbook of Writing Development

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 435-452

  Rijlaarsdam, Gert ^a   Braaksma, Martine ^a   Couzijn, Michel ^a   Janssen, Tanja ^a   Kieft, Marleen ^a   Raedts, Mariet ^b   van Steendam, Elke ^c   Toorenaar, Anne ^a   van den Bergh, Huub ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HUBrussel ^*  (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4135/9780857021069.n31     Document Type: Chapter

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