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Rhetorical Structure Analysis and the Case of the Inaccurate, Incoherent Source-Hopper.
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O'Brien, Teresa – Applied Linguistics, 1995
Presents a case study comparing a native-speaker undergraduate's performance on an examination and a coursework essay. Relational analysis facilitated text-linguistic comparison of two texts. The study contrasts an adequate handling of material in memory in examination conditions with the uncertain handling of difficult source materials. (40…
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