Bowling Alone Together: Academic Writing as Distributed Cognition

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 557-560

  Cronin, Blaise ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; VACUUM;

ACADEMIC WRITING; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 1842680218     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10406     Document Type: Review

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