Main Ingredients for Success in L2 Academic Writing: Outlining, Drafting and Proofreading
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Main Ingredients for Success in L2 Academic Writing: Outlining, Drafting and Proofreading
Spanish undergraduates of English Studies are required to submit their essays in academic English, a genre which most of them are not acquainted with. This paper aims to explore the extralinguistic side of second language (L2) academic writing, more specifically, the combination of metalinguistic items (e.g. transition and frame markers, among others) with students' writing strategies when comp...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128309