‘How did you find the argument?’: Conflicting discourses in a master’s dissertation tutorial

London Review of Education

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 85-100

  Salter Dvorak, Hania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Institutional discourses; L2 academic writing; Language; Tutor feedback

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020181304     PISSN: 14748460     EISSN: 14748479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18546/LRE.15.1.08     Document Type: Article

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