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Decision making: a missing facet of effective documentation

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Proceedings of the 14th annual international conference on Systems documentation: Marshaling new technological forces: building a corporate, academic, and user-oriented triangle table of contents

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States

Pages: 57 - 65

Year of Publication: 1996

ISBN:0-89-791-799-5

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Michael J. Albers

Texas Tech University

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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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