Analysis of Organizing and Rhetorical Items in a Learner Corpus of Technical Writing

Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 79-94

  Marco, María José Luzón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNER CORPORA;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 85188108082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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