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Defining the roles of a technical communicator

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ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communication archive
Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Computer documentation table of contents

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Pages: 55 - 62

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-861-4

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Julie Fisher

Victoria University of Technology

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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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