Secret sauce and snake oil: Writing monthly reports in a highly contingent environment

Written Communication

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 363-409

  Spinuzzi, Clay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

audience analysis; contingency; ethos; genre; knowledge work; networks; reports; WAGR

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956627561     PISSN: 07410883     EISSN: 15528472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741088310380518     Document Type: Article

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