Toward a critical rhetoric of risk communication: Producing citizens and the role of technical communicators

Technical Communication Quarterly

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 415-441

  Grabill, Jeffrey T ^a   Simmons, W Michele ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 10444222177     PISSN: 10572252     EISSN: 15427625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10572259809364640     Document Type: Article

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