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    Kok-Sing Tang & Elizabeth Birr Moje

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Tang, KS., Moje, E.B. Relating Multimodal Representations to the Literacies of Science. Res Sci Educ 40, 81–85 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-009-9158-5

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