Book review
. Understanding Development and Proficiency in Writing: Quantitative Corpus Linguistic Approaches Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 244 pp. ISBN 9781108770101
Reviewed by
Shelley Staples | University of Arizona
Published online: 26 January 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.00028.sta
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.00028.sta
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