Rhetorical Code Studies : Discovering Arguments in and Around Code
Winner of the 2017 Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Prize Software developers work rhetorically to make meaning through the code they write. In some ways, writing code is like any other form of communication; in others, it proves to be new, exciting, and unique. In Rhetorical Code Studi...
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University of Michigan Press
2019
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