Genre Analysis of Iranian TEFL Students’ Master Theses

Genre analysis dealing with the study of situated language in a particular context is regarded as a crucial component in every communication in general and academic writing texts in particular. Furthermore, recently it has been set as a requirement for the graduated students to pursue a shared rheto...

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Published in:Advances in language and literary studies 2018-04, Vol.9 (2), p.31
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College Students
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Foreign Countries
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Language Teachers
Masters Theses
Qualitative Research
Rhetoric
Second Language Instruction
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