Can I Use Headings in My Essay? Section Headings, Macrostructures and Genre Families in the BAWE Corpus of Student Writing

Academic Writing: at the Interface of Corpus and Discourse

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 251-271

  Gardner, Sheena ^a,b   Holmes, Jasper ^c  

^a MOSAIC Centre   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

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