Academic Writing: An Exploratory Study of Quadrigrams

This study investigates a selection of key quadrigrams in a learner corpus of English as a foreign language. The corpus consists of written academic essays submitted by undergraduates as assigned homework. The analysis unveils the nature of the quadrigrams in terms of frequency, in addition to exami...

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Main Authors: Patricia P. Bértoli, Tania M. G. Shepherd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2015-07-01
Series:The ESPecialist: Research in Language for Specific Purposes
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Online Access:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/23980