What students see: Word processing and the perception of visual design

Computers and Composition

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 373-386

  Markel, Mike ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Graphics; Internet; Layout; Multimedia; Visual rhetoric; Word processing; Writing quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039496637     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S8755-4615(98)90007-X     Document Type: Article

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