Graduate students as academic writers: writing anxiety, self-efficacy and emotional intelligence

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 716-729

  Huerta, Margarita ^a   Goodson, Patricia ^b   Beigi, Mina ^c   Chlup, Dominique ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Inspiring the Creative Within LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic writing; emotional intelligence; graduate students; self efficacy; writing anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990190405     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2016.1238881     Document Type: Article

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