Hiding humanity: Verbal and visual ethics in accident reports

Technical Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-82

  Dragga, Sam ^a   Voss, Dan ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

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