Practicing safe visual rhetoric on the World Wide Web

Computers and Composition

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 103-121

  Sullivan, Patricia ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic writing; Graphic guidelines; Page design; Screen design; Visual rhetoric; Visuals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035373760     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S8755-4615(01)00045-7     Document Type: Article

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