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Subject:Reply to Technical vs. writing knowledge From:Nick Lilly Tarleton State University <lilly -at- TARLETON -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 12 Nov 1993 10:40:55 -0500
This stuff may or may not be useful to you. I used these sources on a paper tha
t focused on technical writing pedagogy.
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