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THE USE OF CONNECTORS IN SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES BY NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE WRITERS Ma Luisa Carrió Pastor lcarrio@idm.upv.es Departamento de Lingüística Aplicada Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) 1. INTRODUCTION Globalisation is a fact that we cannot ignore - with the development of new technologies, international communication has been increasing, so that now we are able to work closely with people from other continents. In this international environment, the Internet has been one of the most interesting means of cultural and also economic exchange, the English language being t