Students' writing from sources for academic purposes: A synthesis of recent research

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 23, Issue , 2016, Pages 47-58

  Cumming, Alister ^a,b   Lai, Conttia ^a   Cho, Hyeyoon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b BEIJING FOREIGN STUDIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

English for academic purposes; Instruction; Student development; Writing from sources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976318076     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2016.06.002     Document Type: Article

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