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Rethinking the author-reader relationship in computer documentation

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          cover image ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
          ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation  Volume 20, Issue 2
          May 1 1996
          42 pages
          ISSN:0731-1001
          DOI:10.1145/381815
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          • T. R. Girill
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