Assessing Writing Jan 2021

Lexical density and diversity in dissertation abstracts: Revisiting English L1 vs. L2 text differences

Maryam Nasseri ; Paul Thompson
Journal
Assessing Writing
Published
2021-01-01
DOI
10.1016/j.asw.2020.100511
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