‘Academic literacies’ as moving beyond writing: Investigating multimodal approaches to academic argument

London Review of Education

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 63-72

  Huang, Cheng Wen ^a,b   Archer, Arlene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (China)

Author keywords

Discourse; Genre; Medium; Mode; Multimodal argument

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020200776     PISSN: 14748460     EISSN: 14748479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18546/LRE.15.1.06     Document Type: Article

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