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Publication details [#42689]

North, Sarah. 2005. Disciplinary Variation in the Use of Theme in Undergraduate Essays. Applied Linguistics 26 (3) : 431–452.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | essay | student | theme1

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

Drawing on a series of essays written within an Open University course in the history of science, this paper employs a systemic functional approach to explore whether there is a disciplinary variation in undergaduate students’ use of theme.