Rhetorical vs. instrumental approaches to teaching technical communication

Technical Communication

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 163-173

  Moore, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

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