Investigating the reading-to-write processes and source use of L2 postgraduate students in real-life academic tasks: An exploratory study

Existing studies of source use in academic student writing tend to i), focus more on the writing than the reading end of the reading-to-write continuum and ii), involve the use of insufficiently ‘naturalistic’ writing tasks. Thus, in order to explore the potential of an alternative approach, this paper describes an exploratory case study concerning the ways source material was used by two L2 MA students while involved in a real-life...