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The effects of customized communication skills training on undergraduate information systems majors

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          SIGCPR '97: Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
          April 1997
          254 pages
          ISBN:0897919041
          DOI:10.1145/268820

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