The Rhetoric of Typography: Effects on Reading Time, Reading Comprehension, and Perceptions of Ethos

Technical Communication

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-24

  Brumberger, Eva ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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