"A textbook case revisited": Visual rhetoric and series patterning in the American museum of natural history's horse evolution displays

Technical Communication Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 327-346

  Dyehouse, Jeremiah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

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EID: 79959314615     PISSN: 10572252     EISSN: 15427625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2011.578235     Document Type: Article

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