Applying corpus methods to written academic texts: Explorations of micusp

Journal of Writing Research

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 99-127

  Römer, Ute ^a   Wulff, Stefanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attended unattended this; Corpus analysis; Disciplinary variation; MICUSP; Student academic writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015047186     PISSN: 20301006     EISSN: 22943307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17239/jowr-2010.02.02.2     Document Type: Article

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