Rhetorical Action in Professional Space: Information Architecture as Critical Practice

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-66

  Salvo, Michael J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical; Information architecture; Methodology; Praxis; Rhetoric; Technography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0842346660     PISSN: 10506519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1050651903258129     Document Type: Review

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