Vol. 1 (2009)	University of Reading ISSN 2040-3461
	LANGUAGE STUDIES WORKING PAPERS
	Editors: L.J. O'Brien and D.S. Giannoni

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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From the Editors

Presentation

EMPIRICAL STUDIES

Liu Xinghua and Paul Thompson

Attitude in students' argumentative writing: a contrastive perspective

Natalie Schembri

Citation practices: insights from interviews with six undergraduate students at the University of Malta

Wayne Rimmer

Can what counts in complexity be counted?

THEORETICAL INSIGHTS

Alois Heuboeck

Some aspects of coherence, genre and rhetorical structure and their integration in a generic model of text

Daniel Muñoz

Reliability as a context-dependent requirement for writing proficiency assessment

Pino Cutrone

Overcoming Japanese EFL learners' fear of speaking

Naouel Toumi

A model for the investigation of reflexive metadiscourse in research articles