Argument corpus development and argument component classification: A study in academic Spanish.
Academic writing is a complex task that requires an author to be skilled in argumentation. The goal of an academic author is to communicate ideas clearly and to convince the reader of the veracity of their claims. However, few students in lower level courses are good arguers, as this is a skill that...
| Published in: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 287 - 307 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2021
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