Phillip Durrant, Mark Brenchley & Lee McCallum. Understanding Development and Proficiency in Writing: Quantitative Corpus Linguistic Approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 244 pp. ISBN 9781108770101

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Shelley Staples | University of Arizona

Published online: 26 January 2023

https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.00028.sta

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Phillip Durrant, Mark Brenchley & Lee McCallum. Understanding Development and Proficiency in Writing: Quantitative Corpus Linguistic Approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 244 pp. ISBN 9781108770101

Phillip Durrant, Mark Brenchley & Lee McCallum. Understanding Development and Proficiency in Writing: Quantitative Corpus Linguistic Approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 244 pp. ISBN 9781108770101