Technical writing as textual coordination: An argument for the value of writers' skill with information technology

Technical Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 353-360

  Slattery, Shaun ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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