Purpose Statements in Experimental Doctoral Dissertations Submitted to U.S. Universities: An Inquiry into Doctoral Students' Communicative Resources in Language Education
Lim, J. M.-H., Loi, C.-K., Hashim, A., & Liu, M. S.-M. (2015). Purpose statements in experimental doctoral dissertations submitted to U.S. universities: An inquiry into doctoral students' communicative resources in language education. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 20, 69–89. https://doi-org.proxy1.ncu.edu/10.1016/j.jeap.2015.06.002
This paper examines how well doctoral students express their research purpose in the purpose statements of their dissertations.
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