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The Use of "We" in a Learner Corpus of Reports Written by EFL Engineering Students
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Luzon, Maria Jose – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2009
First person pronouns are a rhetorical strategy which allows researchers to perform different discourse functions in the text, through which they construct a convincing argument that persuades readers of the validity and novelty of their claims and of their own competence. In this paper I explore how Spanish EFL Engineering students use first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Form Classes (Languages), Rhetoric