Technical Communication Quarterly Jan 2015

Getting to “How Do You Know?” Rather Than “So What?” From “What's New?”

Davida Charney The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavida CharneyDavida Charney is a professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. Her latest project is a book, Persuading God: Rhetorical Studies of First Person Psalms, to be published by Sheffield Press.NotesSummer Smith Taylor's research career was too brief, cut short by her death from illness at age 39 in 2011.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2015-01-02
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10.1080/10572252.2015.975965
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