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Prepared as part of the Project on the Social Organization of Reading Activities, for inclusion in the proceedings of the Seventh International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, Boston, MA, August 1985. Portions of this article were presented at the meetings of the American Educational Research Association annual meetings, New Orleans, LA, April 1984. Research was kindly supported by the SSHRC of Canada, through grants #431-770006 and #410-83-0335 RI.

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Heap, J.L. Applied ethnomethodology: Looking for the local rationality of reading activities. Hum Stud 13, 39–72 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00143040

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