Toward a civic rhetoric for technologically and scientifically complex places: Invention, performance, and participation

College Composition and Communication

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 419-448

  Michele Simmons, W ^a   Grabill, Jeffrey T ^b,c  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Rhetoric and Professional Writing ^*

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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