How Do Master's Students Link Their Ideas? A Comparative Lexico-Grammatical Analysis of Conjunctions in Professional Master's Dissertations and Their Cited Research Articles.
This paper studies conjunctions in dissertations written by professional master's students at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Sfax. Since conjunctions are important for linking parts of texts together and contributing to a clear writing style, SFL's classification was adopted to analyse the di...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 63 - 80 |
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Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
2025
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