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Shell Nouns as Cohesive Devices in Published and ESL Student Writing
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Aktas, Rahime Nur; Cortes, Viviana – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2008
This paper analyzes the use of a special type of unspecific noun, called "shell nouns" [Hunston, S., & Francis, G. (1999). "Pattern grammar". Amsterdam: Benjamins; Schmid, H. (2000). "English abstract nouns as conceptual shells: From corpus to cognition". Berlin: Walter de Gruyter], which are frequently used as cohesive devices, in the written…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Nouns, English for Academic Purposes