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A future for professional communicators in software engineering

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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: 76 - 87

Year of Publication: 1994

ISBN:0-89791-681-6

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John K. Horberg

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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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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