What Technical Writing Students Do Know and Should Know about Typography

IEEE International Professional Communication Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 209-222

  Mackiewicz, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Document design; Fonts; Tone; Typefaces; Typography

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS;

TYPOGRAPHY;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 0242507682     PISSN: 2158091X     EISSN: 21581002     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ipcc.2003.1245492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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