Looking for sources of coherence in a fragmented world: Notes toward a new assessment design

Computers and Composition

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-102

  Yancey, Kathleen Blake ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrangement; Assessment; Coherence; Composition; Digital; Heuristic; Invention; Patterns; Texts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344037029     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2003.08.024     Document Type: Article

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