Reimagining the functional side of computer literacy

College Composition and Communication

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 470-503

  Selber, Stuart A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/4140696     Document Type: Article

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