Using Teacher- and Student-Developed Graphic Organizers as a Writing Tool

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Hamid Marashi ¹ , Samaneh Massoodi-Hematabadi ²

1 - Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch
2 - Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch

Received: 2017-03-14 Accepted : 2017-03-14 Published : 2011-03-01

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