Organizational website design as a rhetorical situation

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-44

  Lin, Canchu ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audience; Exigency; Organizational communication; Organizational website design; Rhetor; Rhetorical situation; Rhetorical text

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION; RHETORICAL SITUATION; WEBSITE DESIGN;

WEBSITES;

EID: 34047137861     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2006.890850     Document Type: Article

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