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Book Title: Interacting With Audiences: Social Influences On The Product...
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Interacting with Audiences : Social Influences on the Production of Scientific Writing
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Communication Studies, Media Studies, General, Rhetoric, Technical Writing, Physics / General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
Author: Ann M. Blakeslee
Item Length: 6 in
Series: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Ser.
Item Width: 9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
