The use of we in a learner corpus of reports written by EFL Engineering students

First person pronouns are a rhetorical strategy which allows researchers to perform different discourse functions in the text, through which they construct a convincing argument that persuades readers of the validity and novelty of their claims and of their own competence. In this paper I explore how Spanish EFL Engineering students use first person plural pronouns in multi-authored report writing. The paper examines the discourse functions of...