Building Communities of Practice to Support Graduate Students’ Development as Novice Researchers

2017-10-14

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Citation Formats
G. Can, “Building Communities of Practice to Support Graduate Students’ Development as Novice Researchers,” 2017, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/76595.