Journal abstracts from three academic fields in the United States and Sweden: National or disciplinary proclivities?

Culture and Styles of Academic Discourse

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 251-272

  Melander, Björn ^a   Swales, John M ^a   Fredrickson, Kirstin M ^a  

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