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Reassessing the documentation paradigm: writing for print and online

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Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Systems documentation: technical communications at the great divide table of contents

Banff, Alberta, Canada

Pages: 6 - 9

Year of Publication: 1994

ISBN:0-89791-681-6

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Karl L. Smart	Brigham Young University
Matthew E. Whiting	WordPerfect, the Novell Application Group

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SIGDOC: ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communications

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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