The Effects of Planning Time Conditions and Writing Type on the Writing Quality of Iranian EFL Writers

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Hossein Pourghasemian ¹ , Mohammad Baqerzadeh Hosseini ²

1 - English language Center, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Qom University of Technology, Qom, Iran
2 - English Language Department, Islamic Azad University, Naragh Branch, Iran

Received: 2019-12-29 Accepted : 2020-02-19 Published : 2020-09-01

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