The use of personal pronouns in the writing of argumentative essays by efl writers Introduction

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1^ Self-mentions are defined by Hyland (2005, p.181) as ‘the use of first person pronouns and possessive adjectives to present propositional, affective, and interpersonal information.’

2^ Ädel (2006) obtained the essays by British and American students from the International Corpus of English and therefore did not have specific information about the tasks that were set.

3^ Here and elsewhere IV refers to the interviewer and IE to the interviewee