Exploring aspects of context: Selected findings from the Effective Writing for Management project

Writing Business: Genres, Media and Discourses

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 293-312

  Davies, Florence ^a   Forey, Gail ^a,b   Hyatt, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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