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Time and documents in researcher interaction: Some ways of making out what is happening in experimental science

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An earlier version of part of this paper was read at a conference on ‘Communication in Scientific Research’, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada, 1–2 September 1981. Valuable transcription assistance by Doug McLaughlan is gratefully acknowledged as are helpful comments by Mark Boardman. The research of this paper was supported in part by a grant from McGill University Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. Thanks are also due to the members of the University laboratory who generously accommodated the study which provided material for this paper.

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Woolgar, S. Time and documents in researcher interaction: Some ways of making out what is happening in experimental science. Hum Stud 11, 171–200 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00177303

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