Two kinds of evidence: How information systems form rhetorical arguments

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 491-512

  Feinberg, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Design; Information systems; Knowledge organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954648300     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220411011052920     Document Type: Article

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