Characterizing Audience for Informational Web Site Design

Technical Communication

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 68-85

  Turns, Jennifer ^a   Wagner, Tracey S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Prog Educ Transformation Technol   (United States)

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