Expanding translation use to improve the quality of technical communication

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 323-326

  St Amant, Kirk ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

English speaking; Monolingualism; Source text; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745272673     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/47.867949     Document Type: Article

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