Computers and Composition Sep 2018 Open Access

‘Why Won’t Moodle…?’: Using Genre Studies to Understand Students’ Approaches to Interacting with User-Interfaces

Alison Witte
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Computers and Composition
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2018-09-01
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10.1016/j.compcom.2018.05.004
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